[csw-maintainers] Notes on pkgutil vs. pkg-get

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Thu Apr 12 18:28:57 CEST 2012


Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Thu Apr 12 12:22:28 -0400 2012:

> The -S for pkgaddopts in pkgutil.conf is fed directly to the pkgadd
> command and is an undocumented feature in Solaris that supresses the
> copyright. Even though we like the GPL I think most of us hate
> having it being displayed over and over again, Phil liked it like
> that but I don't see Linux dists displaying the copyright at install
> time either.

+1 for this.  It was way too noisy with the license spewed out. :)

Thanks
-Ben
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