On 1/31/07, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/31/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the things I was looking at was removing the install database > support > > from the pkg tools. > > > > [For those that don't remember, this was a failed attempt to replace the > > contents file with a database.] > > Why did it fail? Wouldn't it be better to fix it instead of nuking? >
Well, it was slower - often significantly - in pretty much every respect. And some of us had developed dependencies on the contents file to work around deficiencies in the pkg tools. My own feeling is that it's probably better to start over, and that would be easier once we've got all the weeds out of the garden. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20070131/6f157ef1/attachment.html>
