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Allow me to dissent.
All vendor install packaging (especially the "helpful" installers) are
misguided and below par. Most are significantly worse than that.
Serverpac is the best of a bad lot - take that as faint praise or a
backhanded compliment - whatever. It still has it own warts.
I really *DON'T* need every fool ISV shipping me a full set of SMP zones
I have to restore.
I am prepared to tolerate it for the BCP. Period.
For everything else, gimme the relfiles, package it properly, and let me
design my own environment.
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I'm inclined to agree, Shane. Especially where products have
maintenance-dependant hooks into operating system code, like the old
Boole & Babbage monitors that BMC now markets. And those so-called
"helpful installers" are all too often more trouble than they're worth.
In short, they're a pain in the (vulger term for posterior).
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