James C. McPherson writes: > Really? If it's been released, that's great. But why on > earth would we want to see it in ON when we know that IPS > is coming along real soon now?
Well, for one thing, most packaged software available for Solaris comes in SysVr4 format, because that's all that formally exists right now. Removing it means you can't install those bits without ripping apart the package by hand. For another, the OpenSolaris distribution itself includes pkgadd, because we haven't EOF'd it and (as far as I understand) we want to keep at least that bit of compatibility. As for the "why ON?" part, I'm not positive why it would move there. It seems to me that it belongs in Install. But long ago, it did once live in ON, and it does still have tendrils there (check out the weird stuff hanging out in libadm), so a return might not be that wrong. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
