There are several places in Opensolaris where PATH and MANPATH are set. By default, however, when I rlogin to an Nevada b81 release, I find that PATH=/usr/bin and MANPATH is not set at all. This is pitiful! Many people assume that nothing else is installed on Opensolaris; they build and install their own copies. Surely, /usr/sfw/bin and /usr/ccs/bin should be in the default PATH, with similar directories in MANPATH.
As well, the linker should search /usr/sfw/bin by default. Again, people assume that the libraries are not present when the linker doesn't find them. When people are building software on Opensolaris, they should be using the native libraries, rather than ones that they've installed themselves. This message posted from opensolaris.org
