Garrett D'Amore wrote: > <not this case> > One of the clarifications I'd like to see from the gang-of-four is > guidance for how we handle cases like this, where the familiarity > benefits directly conflict with Solaris technological superiority. > (E.g. sudo versus pfexec.) From a marketing standpoint, it seems like > we should do what we can to push Solaris users towards technologies that > are optimized for Solaris when we can. There are very few opportunities > (IMO) to do that for users of familiarity commands like sudo, and > product documentation seems like one of the opportunities we could be > taking better advantage of. (Put another way, if someone comes from > linux land, and is used to sudo, once they start using it, how do they > ever learn about the existence of pfexec, or even that there may be > something better than sudo. Some might argue that if sudo works well > enough the user, then why should he look further. I think though, that > if we really want to increase uptake we need to avoid missing > opportunities to point out areas where Solaris can offer superior > functionality to its competitors.)
That assumes that said person who is used to using sudo would actually read the Solaris provided man page. -- Darren J Moffat
