> Brian Smith wrote:
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>> We're not going to do that in the installer, as it's a question too
>>> subtle for explanation there, and it isn't something that is absolutely
>>> necessary to get the system up and running.  For OpenSolaris, we've
>>> chosen the default which makes the most sense for the most users, just
>>> as with every other default.  The solution here is to fix the
>>> utilities.
>>
>> What is the strategy to "fix the utilities"? Will the GNU utilities be
>> modified to be supersets of their Solaris counterparts? What is the
>> strategy
>> for the cases where the default behavior is different between the
>> Solaris
>> version and the GNU version (and/or when the GNU version is non-POSIX by
>> default, by design) like "tar" and "make"?
>>
>
> My opinion is that the GNU utilities should be modified, with
> modifications fed back upstream ... <snip>

Sometimes that doesn't work. GRUB is a good example.

Dennis


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