J. Estes wrote:
You're not forced to use them for your own software;
put your libraries in /usr/local/lib or /opt/xxx and link
with that.
- Bart
I normaly do exactly that. But that still leaves the user with 481 MB of bloat
in /usr/sfw , most of which is not required by the core O/S. This does not
include the enormous bloat of Gnome, either. If OpenSSL is a requirement, the
suggestion was made to move it to /usr/lib, which is reasonable. Forcing the
user to install /usr/sfw with mysql, ImageMagick, and a host of other programs,
including a specific version of GCC and its libraries should _not_ be required
as part of the core O/S installation.
Are they part of the core install, or the developer install? I though
the latter. I do agree that there should be an option for many of these
(Apache, MySQL come to mind) as they can get in the way of one's own
versions.
gcc was included to add x64 support in Solaris 10, at the time stock gcc
didn't do the job.
Ian
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