Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Okay, between your points, and those raised by other folks, I'm sold.
> 
> Someone from the IPS team should come up with a single slide or two with 
> these main bullet points.  I suspect it might help for the folks like 
> me, who didn't see all of the big picture problems.
> 
> (For most of what I do, which is kernel software, SVR4 packaging works 
> fine.)

I'd say it doesn't actually.  Look at the work you had to do in class 
action scripts and postinstall script to get the recent network drivers 
you did working properly.  Now consider how fragile this is in zones and 
diskless.  How it doesn't scale properly to other packages delivering 
similar stuff.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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