As the previous message indicated more and more software in Solaris was
developed outside Sun and thankfully they realised that this software needs to
be include as part of the Solaris O/S. Having more and more software built
into the core O/S is good, since I am sure we all remember times we tried to
install some other 3rd part package and it would not work with Sun versions.
i.e. sendmail
I think there is a argument that the /usr/sfw should disappear and be placed
straight into /usr, but I think it is still best kept where it is. I think over
time packages will move from the /usr/sfw to /usr as they did from /opt/sfw to
/usr/sfw.
sfw is used in the following way:
/opt/sfw 3rd party software we want but Sun is not going support it.
/usr/sfw 3rd party software which Solaris must have and Sun will support
/usr/ Core software+3rd party which Sun can not live with out.
Andrew
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