David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote: >> Do we preserve /usr/bin/<whatever> link replacement on upgrade? > > I don't believe we do. > >> Personally I think that customers should not replace /usr/bin/<whatever> >> links, nor should we support it. The versioning issue exists with or >> without OpenSolaris, so customers generally have to [or are better off >> if they] reference specific versions of Perl/python/whatever from their >> applications rather than generic "latest version" links. >> >> "Latest version" links are useful for users and developers early on >> during development, and for generic scripts that use #! but aren't >> "built" and therefore have to use /bin/<link> in order to have a chance >> of running at all. >> >> We'll probably be better off telling customers as much too. > > +1 > > dsc Do you understand that if the link is Uncommitted, you can only change what it points to at Minor release points. You can't change it to point to the "newer, not known to be compatible" version.
From what I've heard about the model so far (and its not enough), I don't see value in a link. - jek3
