There as a been an overwhelming amount of offtopic and aside discussion on this thread, and it is getting to the point it is totally out of control and I'm considering derailing from being a fast-track and requesting standard review with opinion of the case on that ground alone (I'm not there yet but I'm close)
I'd really like to see an update from the project team at this point, on what there feelings are based on the relevant architectural comments that happen been in the discussion. Does the original proposal stand, if not what is the new proposal ? I'd also like to understand if this is really an OpenSolaris case or a Solaris case. Before you all jump on me about open review let me explain why I think there could be a difference here. I believe the review should be open regardless. This case appears to me to be about setting the user environment for a given distribution, Sun's Solaris based on the constraints that Sun's Solaris distribution has historically and what Sun believes its OpenSolaris distribution should look like. Consider Nexenta, would /usr/gnu even make sense in that world ? Maybe it does maybe it doesn't. Now consider all the other OpenSolaris based distributions does it make sense for them ? Do the others have the similar /usr/xpg?/ /usr/ucb/ that Solaris does ? If not why not ? If they do is it because of a desire for binary compatibility with Sun's distribution or because they believe in multiple alternate environments (note the subtle distinction). For me if we are considering this to be an OpenSolaris architecture case then I want to hear from each of the existing distributions on wither or not they consider this case architecturally significant for them. Note I'm NOT asking for a "vote or opinion" from them only if they consider this case something that impacts all OpenSolaris distributions, and their distro in particular. -- Darren J Moffat
