[illumos-Developer] illumos-extra repo is live

[Garrett D'Amore]

Hey, this is great.

I would like to move libm into illumos-gate proper.

Thanks for getting this going!  One question: what would it take to get
this started as a repo on hg.illumos.org, mirrored to github?

	- Garrett

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 13:26 -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote:
> Good news everyone
> 
> 
> One potential problem with Illumos is that there is a set of software
> that we may not want to be in the core repository ( ie, illumos-gate )
> but is nevertheless required for the running system. Sun handled this
> through the use of multiple consolidations, but Sun's repository
> boundaries were also fairly coarse grained ( python was included in
> the GNOME consolidation, for instance )
> 
> 
> This afternoon we've created a new repository
> at https://github.com/joyent/illumos-extra the goal of which is not to
> be a dumping ground for anything anyone might eventually want ( such
> as SFW was ) but of a reasonable minimal set of software needed to get
> illumos from a fairly useless bunch of files by themselves in to a
> login-able minimal system.
> 
> 
> I understand that there are some things missing from illumos-extra
> ( such as Perl ) and some things we might not want to be in there
> ( such as vim ), but understand that this is a first best effort that
> will evolve over time and discussion
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> John Sonnenschein
> Joyent Inc
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