I could swear that I was involved in a discussion about this very thing 
a while back.  Please change this behavior as you describe below.  
Developers and administrators should both be much happier.

    -Norm

Liane Praza wrote:
> We're seriously considering changing the behaviour of r.manifest when it 
> is invoked on an enabled (and running) service to simply do "svcadm 
> disable -s; svccfg delete", rather than failing with an error and 
> forcing the administrator to type svcadm disable before removing the 
> package.
>
> I expect service developers will be pleased with this, as they'll no 
> longer implement this logic in their own packaging scripts.  Anyone else 
> have any concerns about such a change?
>
> (The IPS folks are planning the same approach for their SMF action.)
>
> liane
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