Dave Miner wrote: > I think I would direct the effort towards filing bugs to get Package > Manager to be aware of its environment and behave appropriately. We do > have legitimate cases of installing packages in the live CD environment, > and would certainly like users to be able to at least search and browse > the package repositories from that environment in order to be able to > ascertain that OpenSolaris has the software they want and get to know > the Package Manager a bit.
These problems will apply to the cli client as well as the gui. I can easily see adding an option to disable local search indexing to help here. However, I don't know what else we could do for the install/uninstall. -- Shawn Walker