[email protected] wrote:
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.
The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer.
They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel,
or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force
them to be part of the install process. Installation should be about
installation and the minimum amount of configuration to get the system
going. Anything beyond that is a pollution of the process IMO.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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