What

There seems to be a demand for a primarily 64 bit OpenSolaris environment. To date, it's never been done (at least publicly) and so this is a good challenge for talented Nexenta users:

Why

The 32 bit environment is viewed as archaic and unnecessary for many installations.

• Not managing both 32 and 64 bit versions of binaries will result in simpler management
• Smaller installation sizes?

The goal

Find a way to migrate to a clean 64 bit base.

It may be possible to "morph" packages in the current repository to make 32 bit binaries/libraries install in .../bin/32 or .../lib/32 while installing 64 bit versions of the same into .../bin or .../lib directly.

Considerations:

• crle paths need to change
• 32-bit only binaries need representation in .../bin
• ... others?