Rich Burridge wrote: > > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > Removal of some redundant GNU utilities > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: John Sonnenschein > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 2 December, 2009 > 4. Technical Description > > Due to the putbacks of ksh93 and the ls(1) enhancements many of the > commandline > tools delivered in /usr/bin have reached feature parity & > familiarization with > the GNU utilities they share names with. In some cases not only does the > GNU > utility not deliver extra functionality to justify its existence but > with the > default $PATH OpenSolaris ships with, the GNU utility hides extra > functionality > delivered by the native tools. As such, This case seeks to EOF and > remove the > following uncommitted paths:
Maybe then the problem is that the default $PATH shouldn't have /usr/gnu/bin in it. I have no problem with removing these from the default install, but it seems the GNU variants should still be available in a non default package - but I can't seem to justify why. -- Darren J Moffat
