Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 05/06/06 23:01 CST: > And yes, you can't burn such CDs on Solaris, even though UTF-8 locales are > otherwise supported. For me, this makes Solaris a broken OS. > > All distros supply patched mkisofs. If an application that breaks because of > this patch, it will receive many bug reports from distro users. Therefore,it > can't live long in the unfixed state.
As always, thanks for your input Alex. I was hoping you would comment and refute my statements. That way it is on record that we are doing what we think is the wisest and most conventional thing amongst all the distributions. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 23:03:00 up 42 days, 10:40, 1 user, load average: 1.26, 0.85, 0.37 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
