On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:00:55AM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > For 2), which has happened before, what would we do? > > Decide, based on the stability of the component, whether to evict it > rapidly or not. Has this really happened for a name-conflicting > component, or merely across the entire set of OSS software?
I don't believe it has yet happened for a name-conflicting component. Given that there is precedent for this happening generally, and we'll be stuck with /usr/gnu/ forever, I think we need some kind of plan here. > > I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to the > > desired features of /usr/gnu/. > > It sounds like you're proposing different desired features (which is I was basing my comment on "desired features" upon the comments during the original thread started by John Rice which sparked this proposal: as: "The problem is really down to the various build tools or lack of them on Solaris that OSS just expects to be there on a Unix box if it is to be able to build with out lots of hair loss on the part of the user." If that's not actually the primary reason for this proposal, then my apologies. regards, john
