1) mmmm because you don't pay for support in case you have 2009.06 release or you don't use dev repository where you can get these updates for free
2) why do you use Adobe Reader (with its hell of loaded scripts and unneeded stuff) when you have Evince in base system? No problem with Evince and PDF files after years for me (same for ePDFview which is in contrib repository) 3) If you uninstall something then it's gone. It's same for any OS so what's your point? Updating/Installing of latest Firefox doesn't involve any unix knowledge. Just pay for subscriptions to Sun or set dev repository as preferred in GUI Package Manager and that's all. Ask Adobe why they don't provide package in this method of install for OpenSolaris http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+desktop/webinstall It's known problem of Solaris/OpenSolaris (missing packages) so you must compile a lot and you can expect a lot of failures. Ask Sun why they decided to write IPS and not implement pkgsrc or similar. At least you can do something here to change at least number of available packages http://pkgfactory.opensolaris.org/ or you may use this http://www.nexenta.org/ . And Solaris/OpenSolaris was/is mainly server/developer operating system so for this area you have a lot of packages available. Other areas are changing slowly. For multimedia you can ask in USA why they must use patents and similar things so that you can't have strong crypto or multimedia codecs in systems ;-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
