On 05/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5-Nov-07, at 10:41 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On 05/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 5-Nov-07, at 7:15 AM, Steven Stallion wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:34:08 +1300, Glynn Foster > >>> <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Do you want to do a mock-up of what that might look like? I fear > >>>> (and > >>> this > >>>> is > >>>> purely an uninformed guess) that you're only going to alienate > >>>> *more* > >>>> users than > >>>> you'll make happy. > >>>> > >>> > >>> This sounds like a solution looking for a problem :) > >>> > >>> Please correct me if I am wrong, but one of the primary goals of the > >>> new > >>> installer is simplicity. Why go to the trouble of selecting a > >>> runtime in > >>> the installation? I certainly would not want to instate a GNU > >>> runtime for > >>> *every* user on the system. > >>> > >>> Simply put, why not have the option of selecting a runtime post- > >>> install by > >>> modifying your PATH (this is precisely what we do today)? If you > >>> want a GNU > >>> runtime, simply place /usr/gnu/bin at the head of your PATH. Still > >>> want > >>> xpg6? How about a BSD runtime? This is functionality we already have > >>> today, > >>> why not keep it around in Indiana? > >>> > >>> If you want to change the default PATH (in effect setting the > >>> runtime for > >>> each user), you have the option of changing /etc/profile etc. > >> > >> > >> Tell that to whoever violated ARC by putting /usr/gnu at the head of > >> $PATH in the indiana preview ;) > > > > No violation of ARC occurred. ARC is not a required process until > > consolidations are integrated, etc. You will see that the Sun > > engineers making those changes made it clear that any changes made > > would go through ARC once they were ready. > > not really my point here... > > you're aiming for simplicity. Manually setting $PATH and $SHELL is not > simplicity. Forcing everyone to use the GNUserland isn't either.
No, actually. I'd rather not have the GNU tools at the front of the path. I'm just pointing out that no "ARC" was violated. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
