> I have no objection to the "let such things run from SMF" philosophy > for things where that's a suitable answer.
I don't think we are saying different things thus far. > HOWEVER, that needs to be made easy, and IMO it can be. But it isn't presently, unless I am missing some improvement. I feel like we are trying to turn sysadmins into software packagers, but if there are some relevant design docs, I'll be willing to revisit. > So I don't think you or Mike have "distilled the argument..." And we now disagree :-) > And note: I am actually in support of begin/finish scripts for AI even > though I don't support package scripting. Right, these are two different aspects. Since I'm not a software packager, I don't have a horse in that race (not sure the metaphor works in all languages). I do know that a lot of my customers have lots of infrastructure built around the way jumpstart works today. Bob
