On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:29:54PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> But if your argument is that upgrade is so slow that nobody's going to
> notice, that's probably true.

OK, that's the argument I'm making.  Thanks!  :^)

> The only point where it'd get bad is if incremental package adds that
> use i.services got very slow.  I'm assuming that doesn't happen,
> because there's only one package with the full set of IANA services.

i.services should not be used by any package other than SUNWcsr.  salo
pointed me at 6631513 (and related CRs).

i.services should not be used to add any one-off entries to
/etc/services.  i.services is only for merging the services file
delivered by ON with whatever is on the system.

> > John Levon objected (on IRC) (mildly?) to any scheme involving
> > postrun-type services as I was considering something like that.  Lubomir
> > Sedlacik (salo), also on IRC, claimed that i.services breaks zone
> > installation, though salo gave no details on that.
> 
> That'd be interesting, as /etc is private to the zone and should
> always be writable.

I got the info from salo.  See above.
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