Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:01:12PM -0400, Jim Sandoz wrote:
>>> a b wrote:
>>>> Exactly. I have often wondered about this as well.  What is the
>>>> advantage of ripping out IPF to be on the bleeding edge? I'd really
>>>> like to know.
>>>> <snip>
> <snip>
>>> is sun's version "good enough" for production use?  maybe for some.
>>> is it optimal?  no.
>>> are there new, unfound bugs in the "latest" ipf?  probably.
>>
>> Same reason the first thing anyone who deals with Solaris does is
>> install the GNU utilities and completely ignore the Solaris utilities. ;)
> 
> Phil,
>    I go one better than that -- I never install them in the first place.
> I took the trouble to "tune" my Solaris 10 Jumpstart Profile so that
> a lot of drek never gets installed, eg:
> 
> cluster SUNWCsndm   delete  # sendmail
> cluster SUNWCgcc    delete  # gnu C
> cluster SUNWCnet    delete  # UUCP
> cluster SUNWCown    delete  # openwindows
> cluster SUNWCperl   delete  # Sun perl
> package SUNWsfinf   delete  # GNU info pages
> 
> and there's a lot of other clusters and packages I don't install either
> (like mozilla, staroffice, CDE, GNOME, UUCP, evolution, Asian fonts).
> I'm running servers -- not desktop platforms, so I don't need them.

No, I mean ls, ps, df, etc.

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