solarg wrote:
> Ghee Teo wrote:
>   
>> solarg wrote:
>>     
>>> hello all,
>>> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages 
>>> comparing to solaris chmod?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Check your $PATH, the default path should include /usr/gnu/bin before 
>> /usr/bin.
>> You can change this to use whichever one you prefer.
>> Let hope this does not start a flame war :)
>>     
>
> thanks for all reply. I'm just wondering if it's not possible to mix the 
> best of solaris and gnu tools.
> For example, i prefer to use gnu tar, gnu make and gnu patch, because it 
> makes easier the process of compiling foss.
> I'm also wondering if it's not valuable to integrate a tool like module 
> (http://modules.sourceforge.net/) ?
>   
Yes. there are symlinks to g* for most gnu tools. It requires a bit of 
relearning, but fairly easy to adjust to once you let go of certain 
(year/decade) old habits.. fwiw.. I do agree with you that certain gnu 
tools provide an interface that is more user friendly.. For my project 
as we identify.. we try to implement the low hanging fruit.. such as -i 
in find and other things.. This way we try to keep the fast solaris 
userland and add /mint/ where it makes sense instead of cp -rf gnu*.. 
Anyway.. this topic could go on for a long time..

Cheers

./C
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