On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:11:57AM -0700, lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: > Zones design, I think, sticks us with a problem of having to split > packages. (Or, put another way, the packaging tools do -- split root > and usr packages are an artifact of package/install implementation, not > necessarily the way things needed to be done.)
I think it has to do with: a) the historical / vs. /usr split and b) diskless clients, where /usr is shared read-only by all clients and / is per-client -- install and patching, which rely on the package system, have to support this. We should eventually be able to dump this horrid split and rationalize package numbers and names, now that we have snapshot and cloning in ZFS. Emphasis on eventually. Nico --
