* 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/

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