Bart Smaalders wrote:
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
paths to build most open source freeware packages; those dealing
with particularly provincial packages will need to prepend /usr/gnu
to their paths.
Glad you mentioned that, because it also follows that this proposal
should eventually alleviate the main complaint about CSW (blastwave)
packages; namely, that installing a package often pulls lots of other
stuff that shouldn't be necessary.
Eric
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