Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Ok, fine. Then throw whatever non-conflicting commands you like > into /usr/bin and call it serendipitous discovery. > > But also create a /usr/sun or whatever and populate it with > symlinks only to commands that don't come from external open source I'd go one step further.
Put GNU in /usr/gnu Move the Solaris environment (The things from /usr/bin that you describe) to /usr/sun. Then softlink both back into /usr/bin. Put all the environments on the same level. Pull all the 'default environment' stuff into /usr/bin through softlinks from where ever it lives. New and trnasplanted users get the best environment from /usr/bin that the developers can design. Existing users have the flexibility, and grnaularity to build what they want from parts supplied. ARC approved versions of any utilities are in ARC approved locations, and therefore available to be depended on by other packages. -Kyle
