[Removed the case id, since this is off-topic for the case which isn't currently
on the table for discussion anyway.]
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I'm also of the opinion that it is a mistake to sacrifice familiarity
> for our paying Solaris 10 customers in favor of familiarity for people
> coming from Linux.
But clearly all our paying Solaris 10 customers already have dotfiles to
set $PATH, given how useless the default Solaris 10 $PATH is.
They get familiarity by continuing to use those - the default PATH with
/usr/gnu/bin first only affects those setting up new accounts who don't
have existing Solaris .dotfiles, which seems like a very reasonable
compromise.
Also rememeber the PATH default is set only in text files which are trivially
editable by users with experience from previous Solaris releases - it's not
baked into the kernel.
> Which group do you think contributes more towards
> the $$ that pay our salaries?
Sounds like an invalid question for PSARC-ext & shell-discuss at
opensolaris.org.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
