Quoth lianep at eng.sun.com on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:10:17PM -0700: > Seth Goldberg writes: > > What is the purpose of "delete=`true'" in a dependency tag? Is it to > > dele > > te that dependency/dependent from the graph of dependencies from now on, or > > d > > oes it do something else? What is its main use? (Sorry, I looked around > > for > > documentation, but couldn't find what I was looking for). Apologies if > > this > > is obvious. ... > delete essentially allows a service developer to delete a property > group, dependency, dependent, or method. Useful if you deliver a newer > version of the service that no longer needs a dependency or a > configuration property group.
Note that this functionality has been superceded by svccfg import's last-import functionality. (Which should be superceded by the enhanced profiles project.) The delete attribute should be removed from the DTD, but I don't know whether we can actually do that. Anyhow, don't use it. David
