Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> I'm guessing that the disconnect is that we tend to believe (or at least
> I tend to believe) that
> users able to cope with setting $PATH will be able to determine the
> optimal location for
> /usr/bin in their path and that it usually tends to be towards the end.
> Hence, appropriately
> sized "groups" of utilities can be interposed on /usr/bin.
As I (just) put in the issues file:
jmp-1 This proposal puts a set of OSS utilities in /usr/bin where
they become intermingled with core Solaris commands. It also
puts conflicting commands in /usr/gnu. This lets the user
choose between
Solaris versions 1st + Solaris-GNU versions 2nd
(PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/gnu)
and
Solaris-GNU versions 1st + Solaris versions 2nd
(PATH=/usr/gnu:/usr/bin)
It does not allow for
Solaris versions 1st + User-Provided-GNU versions 2nd
That is, if I download/configure/make my own version of the
GNU utilities, I am faced with either using them to the exclusion
of any Solaris versions (PATH=/myGNU:/usr/bin) or not using them
at all. There is no way for me to use the Solaris versions 1st
and my GNU versions 2nd.
-John
