On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:40:22PM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:

> Because we avoid running unknown scripts as root in installation
> context, we will able to install pkgs into zones w/o having
> to boot each one as we do today; instead we can do all the
> pkgs ops on zone clones... this will greatly speed up zone
> packaging/patching operations.

Here's another reason for doing this: OpenSolaris can introduce wacky new
installation contexts without everyone in the community scrambling to
retrofit their packages to handle them.

Danek
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