Matt Ingenthron wrote:
Calum Mackay wrote:
out of interest, what exactly is the problem with having more BEs than
you think you need?
ZFS is going to look after the space; I suppose keeping track of what
they all are is the issue?
Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issue is that
there are some classes of things you don't want to have to go create a
new BE for. For instance? I was working on building some software,
noticed the new SunStudioExpress, went to install it, and inadvertantly,
through the GUI, went down the image-update path.
A new user may assume that's the only path, and rebooting to use a newer
compiler is pretty silly.
Which will only happen if you use 'Update All' or 'image-update'.
If you just select the package itself and use install, then only that
one package will be updated, and no alternate boot environment will be
created.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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