Shawn Walker wrote:


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.

You seem to be missing my point. I got that, and I understand ipkg underneath, but the UI tends to lead one toward "update all"... which will probably make new OpenSolaris users think that's the only route.

- Matt
_______________________________________________
indiana-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss

Reply via email to