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

Jeffery Small jeff at cjsa.com
Thu Apr 12 21:13:18 CEST 2012


Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

>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. :)

Agreed!  Thanks for the option.

Regards,
-- 
Jeff

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