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 >> _______________________________________________ >> tools-discuss mailing list >> tools-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > 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
