Peter Tribble wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> On 9/5/06, *Dave Miner* <Dave.Miner at sun.com <mailto:Dave.Miner at 
> sun.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Peter Tribble wrote:
>      > Are Pre-SVR4 packages supported in Solaris?
>      >
> 
>     Good question.  I don't recall the answer.  I tend to doubt they'd work.
>       I don't know where you'd find them these days.
> 
> 
> I found bug 4980166
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4980166
> 
> If I understand this correctly, SVR3 software compatibility itself has been
> removed already, so removing packaging support shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Based on that, I just filed an RFE to remove the prevr4 package support.
> 

Yeah, that's a pretty strong clue that we can probably dump this code.

Dave

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