On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57:07PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > Jan Friedel wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:04:26PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>>> AFAICT, Indiana by default comes with a PATH that has /usr/gnu/bin >>>> in front of the rest.... >>> That is the default environment for the new user created by the OS >>> installer. >>> As always, users are free to change their $PATH to any set of tools they >>> like, >>> and shell scripts are encouraged to declare the paths to the tools they need >>> so they are not broken by users with different $PATH settings. >> >> I'm just curious, why this cannot be an installation option? >> Sth. like ability to set netservices(1M) during the S10 >> installation. > > If you read past discussions on the installer, you'll see that one of > the goals was to keep the install process as simple as possible. > Configuration options like this belong in the firstboot configuration > setup, or in visual panels where they don't add to the complexity of the > installer.
But one of the (hidden ?) goals of OpenSolaris is to attract linux users. So one additional screen during installation which asks about your habits (PATH, etc.) shoudn't make it really more complicated. Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wrozki czekaja na Ciebie! Sprawdz >> http://link.interia.pl/f22c2 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
