As I've mentioned numerous times before, it's not the particular implementation users are after, it's functionality.
users don't want gnu tar per se, they want tar -z... or tar -j. We can have a standards compliant tar with the -z or -j options, and I'm sure ARC won't complain too much. wholesale replacing tar with gnu tar, on the other hand, they will ( and should ) have a fit over. On 6-Nov-07, at 2:23 PM, John Plocher wrote: >>>> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities >>> Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause > > I'm not at all sure that this change would actually affect me - or > most > of y'all either. > > Since our target growth "market" for OpenSolaris is users of linux > systems > where gnutools are the defacto standard, then it seems clear that > *they* > certainly won't care about being "incompatible with old Solaris or > POSIX". > They are the ones who would find not having tar->gtar to be a bug. > > The only people who will care are the old Solaris users who haven't > yet > figured out how to set PATH= in their shell scripts and/or don't have > their own .profile/.login/.bashrc/.cshrc scripts. > > Since I have my own .startup-scripts, and they explicitly set PATH, > I won't even notice that this change has happened. > > [It would be nice if this choice was reflected in the new user > account setup dialog instead of being hardcoded by the installer, > but that is nit...] > > -John > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
