Removing Packages "added" by zone creation

The search feature on these forums is limited. Scrolling back about 8 months I think I know the answer to this question, but I would like to be certain.
I have a solaris 10 global zone with SUNWut (sunray services) installed.
When I create my non-global zones, Solaris is "kind" enough to install the sunray services into the non-global zones as they get created. This leads to multiple instance of the sunray software running.
When I created the non global zones the first time, I went into the non--global zones and I removed the SUNWut packages using pkgrm.
Is there a way to tell the zone creation to not install the SUNWut package when the non global zone is created? I have to rebuild this machine and I would love to create the zones in a more efficient manner.
Looking through the posts I saw that people were dealing with my problem the same way I did. Once the non global zone is running, go in and do a pkgrm on it.
I just want to verify that this is the way other people are handling it.
Thanks,
Eric

The zones are a typical sparse root model (inherited-pkg-dir's are /lib/ /platform/ /sbin/ and /usr/). There is no nfs mounting or such.
Once the non-global zone is installed, If you go to /opt in the non-global zone the SUNWut directory is there. If you do a ps command you can see that there is a sunray server is running in each zone.
Thinking about it I suppose that the install script for SUNWut may be at fault. Perhaps it is telling the zone install that it is a base package when it is not. This would make sense because I was using a SRSS 3.0 install patched by my sun engineers to install on my sol10 system. Perhaps I will not run into the same issue now that I have the official 3.1 sunray s/w.
Only time will tell. But I appreciate the reply so that I know if it does happen that I am handling the problem in the correct manner (using pkgrm on SUNWut).
I will report back if this issue comes up again when I redo the system.
Thanks,
Eric

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