Yes, that db it was result of 3 years long "Regestry 4" project claimed to improve performance twice - unfortunately it was shown only on test packages. I and Gary was directly involved to pulling it off and by just improving packaging and patching code (side effect of zone support) really improve performance twice for packaging.
There is some code in patchadd shell script or possible in other scripts left and it may run some utility which check database existance so have a look at patchadd.ksh also. Unfortunately many functionality also is in CAS scripts so they also need to be checked. As well as library dependancy - I think it should be removed completely, most likely nothing calls them (except may be that utility from shall-scripts). vassun. This message posted from opensolaris.org
