John Levon wrote:
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:42:31AM +0100, John Rice wrote:
"I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to
the desired features of /usr/gnu/."
I know what you mean. My goal in the orginal post was to have all the
various OSS tools present on Solaris in a way that makes it very easy to
build OSS software out of the box.
Stephen made it clear that the proposal is only intended to deal with the
problem of name-conflicting GNU projects, and isn't intended to cover anything
else. This seems reasonable to me. For a start, I think this currently deals
with any problems we're likely to have. I'm not aware offhand of anything we
may need to build that has naming problems.
I'm hoping the combination of Bart's proposal on "Serendipitous
discovery" and Stephen's "/usr/gnu/bin" proposal will go a long way to
solving the difficulties of building OSS on Solaris. If other OSS tools
are still missing, that would conflict with what's in /usr/bin then
we'll need to look again and see if other hierarchies need to be
introduced, hopefully this will not be the case.
Exactly.
regards,
john
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Note that the current proposal will allow those with unmodified
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