On 2/1/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:56, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > >>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Dennis> So then .. it looks like the old way of pkgrm packages is going > > Dennis> away and a new prodreg uninstall process is here now? > > > > The last I heard, Solaris packages (pkgadd, etc.) are in no danger of > > going away. > > > > I don't know why a new prodreg mechanism was introduced. I don't > > believe it's universally used within Sun. > > prodreg is a layer above packages. Quite often a "Product", say > a compiler suite or an application server suite, is a collection > of packages. The data installed by prodreg is kind of like a > meta package set. > > prodreg has been around for a while, its use is not mandatory. > > The idea is to give the administrator a higher level or abstraction > than raw packages. >
If I can issue one command to remove Sun ONE Studio 10 as opposed to 30 then its a good thing. I'll simply read the man page. Dennis
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