Joerg Schilling wrote:
> I believe that e.g. GNOME does not belong into /usr/bin
>
And many here at Sun would agree with this (although I was a
mild proponent of it).
Times change. At the time this decision was made, GNOME was
set as *the* window system. Accept no substitutes. Yes, it was
known that there existed folk at that time who wanted an alternate
windowing system, but it wasn't believed to be a significant number.
There appears to be two oversights in this:
1) We didn't foresee OpenSolaris in its current form and the
generation of alternate distributions of Solaris.
2) We didn't expect that S10 would become so stale. (Sometimes
I wish S10 had 2.4 - that's so bad, we'd have to update it - 2.6
is just good enough.)
There is nothing to really be said about #1. The future is unpredictable.
I personally think we are being too compatibility concerned by not updating
the S10 gnome in an S10 Update. The reality might be that this is more of a
resource issue, rather than a compatibility issue.
That all said, what problems (other than asthetics) does having gnome in
/usr/bin cause? A properly constructed path should let you interpose
another.
- jek3
