Hi, Alan Coopersmith p??e v p? 19. 03. 2010 v 16:39 -0700: > [Removed the case id, since this is off-topic for the case which isn't > currently > on the table for discussion anyway.] >
Good idea. > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > I'm also of the opinion that it is a mistake to sacrifice familiarity > > for our paying Solaris 10 customers in favor of familiarity for people > > coming from Linux. > > But clearly all our paying Solaris 10 customers already have dotfiles to > set $PATH, given how useless the default Solaris 10 $PATH is. > I would be very carefull with claiming "all our paying Solaris 10 customers"... > They get familiarity by continuing to use those - the default PATH with > /usr/gnu/bin first only affects those setting up new accounts who don't > have existing Solaris .dotfiles, which seems like a very reasonable > compromise. > Well, "setting up new accounts" means also setting all new installations, even by customers already maintaining older Solaris systems. > Also rememeber the PATH default is set only in text files which are trivially > editable by users with experience from previous Solaris releases - it's not > baked into the kernel. > But it is still not solving problem of hidden features in default installation for newcommers. Best regards, Milan
