On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:42:31AM +0100, John Rice wrote: > "I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to > the desired features of /usr/gnu/." > > I know what you mean. My goal in the orginal post was to have all the > various OSS tools present on Solaris in a way that makes it very easy to > build OSS software out of the box.
Stephen made it clear that the proposal is only intended to deal with the problem of name-conflicting GNU projects, and isn't intended to cover anything else. This seems reasonable to me. For a start, I think this currently deals with any problems we're likely to have. I'm not aware offhand of anything we may need to build that has naming problems. > I'm hoping the combination of Bart's proposal on "Serendipitous > discovery" and Stephen's "/usr/gnu/bin" proposal will go a long way to > solving the difficulties of building OSS on Solaris. If other OSS tools > are still missing, that would conflict with what's in /usr/bin then > we'll need to look again and see if other hierarchies need to be > introduced, hopefully this will not be the case. Exactly. regards, john
