Software installation opinions needed

[Frank P. Bresz]

In article <0706TQG at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>And to top it off, this on a system that already has one of the best
>automatic software installation systems I've ever seen.

	Well it isn't necessarily one of the best I have ever seen.
However SUN uses something called extract_unbundled (usually run as root).
To load their add-on packages.  It does a fairly nice job.  The question I
would like to have answered is?  Does SUN encourage/support use of this
script by 3rd party vendors?  If not, why not?  If so why don't more people
start using it.  From what I can tell all it requires is write access into
/usr/tmp a fairly innocuous place.  Can anyone offer any details.  
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