On 06/11/2007, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [trimmed lists to Indiana only since this is only about Indiana] > > On Nov 6, 2007, at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> > >>> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to > >>> apply. > >> > >> Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class > >> of potential Solaris users to be confused and irritated and many of > >> them will walk away. > >> > >> The choice seems obvious to me. -Tim > > > > Even if the choice means turnign away current customers, or are those > > not important (hm, haven't we seen that one before at Sun?) > > So who is more likely to go in and manually adjust the environment? > The existing customers, or the new users giving it its one and only try?
Which to me is precisely why a balance must be struck so that those new users don't need to worry about it. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
