On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:51:10 -0800, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > not really my point here... > > you're aiming for simplicity. Manually setting $PATH and $SHELL is not > simplicity. Forcing everyone to use the GNUserland isn't either. > > An dialog box somewhere in the 'advanced' install path I think, is.
That is exactly the problem - installation is a global process. Any changes made at this step would have to affect every user of a system unless you want to rely on the usual post-installation cruft (FWIW, I detest the fact that the new installer requests a new username/password). This gets especially interesting if your users are backed by NIS/NIS+/LDAP/etc. The argument that modifying the PATH is too difficult for the average user is nonsense. Any user who knows enough to know what runtime they prefer, know precisely how to change their PATH to reflect that. This is one of the greatest unspoken features of Solaris - a mutable runtime. Essentially, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. It would be wiser to clean up the /usr hierarchy and perhaps provide a post-install gui utility to modify a given user's environment. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
