John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >>> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities
> >> Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause
>
> I'm not at all sure that this change would actually affect me - or most
> of y'all either.
>
> Since our target growth "market" for OpenSolaris is users of linux systems
> where gnutools are the defacto standard, then it seems clear that *they*
I would never give up the UNIX cmdlind in favor of the GNU variant.
It should be sufficient to ask new users for the style they like.
This could be either achieved by the skeleton dir option to useradd or
by copying a skeleton that is a set up shell script with questions.
> certainly won't care about being "incompatible with old Solaris or POSIX".
> They are the ones who would find not having tar->gtar to be a bug.
They will later find problems and assert the problems are Solaris specific.
J?rg
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