James Carlson writes:
> It's a bit icky. It's somewhat akin to self-modifying behavior, in
> that the installed software goes through some sort of lengthy
> "rebuild" after the first boot.
A little more clarification on that: if we could make it so that no
package ever used a {pre,post}{install,remove} or class action script,
and that all of them used transient SMF service, so that package
installs became nothing more than cpio blasting bits, then I might get
more interested.
Having multiple mechanisms to do effectively the same thing but in
subtly different ways seems like a good way to cause complicated bugs.
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