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Re: Please review: Presenting the Solaris Athena 9.3 recrafting.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Feb 18 15:13:56 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, mjv@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:13:49 -0500
I've added a paragraph at the end to mention a finer grained install as
a future possibility:
These two changes are also a first step in offering customers a
more fine-grained approach to the Athena install. Writing an
installer that allows customers to custom-select packages
becomes possible.
Good suggestion, Bob.
-wdc
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 19:03, Robert A Basch wrote:
> A couple of points...
>
> Since AFAIK we are not planning to install the entire OS locally,
> we'll still have the /os hierarchy in AFS. So the claims about
> "no unusual file organization" and "usual Solaris install" need
> to be qualified.
>
> In the "Future" section, you might mention that, more generally
> than simplifying mkserv, packages are a first step toward offering
> finer granularity in choosing what software gets installed.
>
> Bob
>
>
