Dennis Clarke wrote: >> 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. >
I don't know whether GRUB is a good example, as I'm not up on whether we've tried to send anything back upstream. But if they can't go upstream, you make a decision whether your mods are worth the very real costs of maintaining a branch. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
