On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Alan Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > I hate to ask, having just spent nearly 10 years trying to get X moved > from /usr/openwin to /usr/X11, and finally being almost finished with > that, but is it time to stop segregating X11 and move to /usr? > [...]>
I agree. It makes OpenSolaris less weirder to a wider population and /usr/X11 can be left as a symlink to /usr. > If we're going to do this, the ideal time to do so is in the next 6 months, > so it's baked in before Solaris.Next, which is already a Major release in our > compatibility taxonomy due to the change of default filesystem (zfs) and > packaging system (IPS) - we might even be able to do it as part of > transitioning > our builds to generate IPS packages, since we'll be creating new package > manifests for those, and could just create them from the start to deliver > to /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etal. > The package generation step should be kept sufficiently separate, as it is today, to easily plug-in other package mechanisms. > Is there any strong reason we should be considering against doing this? > Can't think of any. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
