[indiana-discuss] new BE for just two upgrades

[Matt Ingenthron]

Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>>
>> Shawn's answer covers the needed functionality, but the issue is that 
>> there are some classes of things you don't want to have to go create 
>> a new BE for.  For instance?  I was working on building some 
>> software, noticed the new SunStudioExpress, went to install it, and 
>> inadvertantly, through the GUI, went down the image-update path.
>>
>> A new user may assume that's the only path, and rebooting to use a 
>> newer compiler is pretty silly.
>
> Which will only happen if you use 'Update All' or 'image-update'.
>
> If you just select the package itself and use install, then only that 
> one package will be updated, and no alternate boot environment will be 
> created. 

You seem to be missing my point.  I got that, and I understand ipkg 
underneath, but the UI tends to lead one toward "update all"...  which 
will probably make new OpenSolaris users think that's the only route.

- Matt