Is setting MANPATH only unnecessary on OpenSolaris, or have the same changes been backported to Solaris 10?
-- William Yang wyang at tjhsst.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Walker" <swal...@opensolaris.org> To: "Gary Mills" <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:09:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Desktop defaults for open Solaris Gary Mills wrote: > We change /etc/profile and /etc/.login to extend PATH and MANPATH to include > all available software. In particular, /usr/sfw/bin, /opt/SUNWspro/bin, > /usr/ccs/bin, > and /usr/dt/bin need to be added to $PATH. We arrange for /etc/profile to be > sourced Setting MANPATH should no longer be necessary thanks to the work done by Mike Gerdts. Setting PATH alone should be sufficient as it will, if I remember correctly, use $PATH to determine $MANPATH automatically. > Similar changes should be made to Open Solaris, if they haven't been done > already, so that the desktop works nicely the first time it's used. > Otherwise, some > people will abandon the platform without giving it a fair chance. Others will > install > unnecessary software just because the native copy isn't in the default PATH. The path issue is slowly becoming less of an issue as most software is being used to /usr/bin to enable "serendipitous discovery". However, I agree that something should still be done here until then. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20081205/cc4388e5/attachment.html>
