> From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> ... > I don't see how the libs being in /usr/lib versus /usr/sfw/lib makes any > difference. If you use the one that is in Solaris you use it as > Volatile (External) and that means you have to take the meager binary > compatibility that OpenSSL gives. > > If you don't want that don't use OpenSSL use something else.
Right. I hope and pray that by the time Nevada becomes Solaris something, that no actual files live in /usr/sfw. It would only have symbolic links for compatibility purposes. It was an idea that maybe had short-term merit, but the world evolved in such a way to make it not such a good idea. Maybe a better way to express my "vision" would be that a grep of the man pages for the string "/sfw/" would return empty. Unfortunately, some of the people who seemed eager to make this happen have been reassigned and have different priorities now. - jek3
