* David.Comay at Sun.COM <David.Comay at Sun.COM> [2007-01-30 11:55]: > Stephen, > > > Extended discussion led to an aesthetic preference for a complete > > environment, in which all components of the installed upstream > > package were in their normal locations within /usr/gnu. (We return > > to this point briefly in Section 2.5.) > > Could you please confirm that this means that non-conflicting GNU > utilities will appear in *both* /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin. Using > "shred" as an example, the following names will appear in the file > system name-space > > /usr/bin/shred > /usr/gnu/bin/shred > > (with one being a link to the other) > > I only bring this up (again) since there seemed to be some confusion in > the first around of psarc-ext review. Perhaps the confusion is just > mine but see for example > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86586#86586 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86630#86630 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86746#86746 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86757#86757 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86746#86746 > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=86814#86814
Yes, this is what is currently being proposed. The point raised in the earlier discussions was that, without the link, someone might view the /usr/gnu/bin collection as an incomplete installation. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
