On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:52:14PM +0200, Darren Reed wrote:
> One might ask the very same question of using SMF for that task.
> How can SMF assemble a file it has never seen before?

The pkg author provides the start method that knows what to do.

> Why can we teach SMF to do this but not pkg?

IPS could have it's own SMF-like actuator concept.  It'd be replicating
much of the same functionality that's already in SMF.  I think that'd be
cleaner, actually, but it'd also require lots more work.
_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss

Reply via email to