On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:26 -0600, David Schanen wrote: > On 11/15/05, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... > > > As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 > > > types of OpenSolaris-based distros: > > > > > > a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible > > > > > > b) Solaris-centric, those who trying to mimic Solaris as much as > > > possible > > > > > > But I'm hoping that both (a) and (b) will be *much more* compatable than > > > any two distros in GNU/Linux world. And the reason for my hope is that > > > we are using the same "Least Common Denominator"(LCD) - OpenSolaris(tm) > > > which is not just a kernel but userland too and developed under the > > > single roof. In my sense, LCD will preserve inter-distro compatability. > > > > If you move all binaries from /usr/bin/ to /usr/sun/, like Nexenta is > > doing, there is not much user space compatibility with Solaris left over. > > I haven't used the pre-alpha, but I think this actually wouldn't be > such a big deal. Assuming things are done intelligently, there is the > 'alternatives' mechanism on Debian and by default you could have > symlinks to make rather than gmake and tar rather than gtar, et al. by > default. You could even create a package indicating Solaris > compatability that requires all the basic stuff kind of like Linux > standard base is done.
very true. dpkg's alternatives is a good thing. Also there are other ways to achive that, i.e. playing with execv() for instance. > Using absolute paths (like some Makefile's > obnoxious tendency to assume /bin/bash does something, grrr!), is not > something I would want to encourage. Of course, maybe there are a lot > of applications for Solaris out there that make assumptions about > paths, I don't know. Those applications which are CDDL'ed will be fixed over time. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
