* Peter van Gemert <peter.van.gemert at accenture.com> [2007-03-29 12:43]: > Would there every be a reason to write a service manifest and not have > it create a instance when you import it? If no, why isn't the > <create_default_instance enabled='false' /> required in a > manifest file? If yes, what could be reason to create a manifest > without having it create a instance?
A service without instances is a means of storing configuration in the repository. There's been an ongoing, intermittent debate about this use--in which your questions are very much consistent with the "don't do this side". (A helpful RFE that is mostly neutral regards the debate would be to make svccfg(1M) warn about no instances on validate or import, even if the capability to do so was preserved.) - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
