Fredrich Maney wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Brian Utterback > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you saying that a question about which should be the default is >> too difficult to figure out, but deducing why the flags don't work, >> deciding that what the proper path order is and then modifying either >> /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile is acceptable? >> >> I'm sorry, I don't buy it. >> >> It is simple. Do we want the default environment to be a Solaris one >> or a GNU one? If you want both, you have to provide a knob to switch >> them back and forth. >> > > I think what he is saying is that providing a toggle during install is > easy, but explaining the use of the toggle is quite difficult because > the vast majority of users will have absolutely no idea what you are > asking them to choose between. Providing a "if you don't understand > this question, just accept the default" option would probably work, > but it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth and would still beg the > question of "what is the default?" (obviously I'd say "classic > Solaris"). > > fpsm > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > Well I came from linux to solaris and there certainly was (and still) is a difficult way to catch the differences in userland (including compiler, etc...) While I was quite happy to learn these differences, my interest being more of a hobby really, I think providing an install option to choose which userland I want to use by default would be great and definitely improve out-of-the box usability (for both ex_linux AND long time solaris users), which I unsderstand is a goal of the indiana project. It would also garantee the consistency of the option choosed (i e no mixed userland tools by default) which is certianly not so easy to achieve afterwards if one is not a cross-system experienced user!
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