My understanding was that products installed in /usr/sfw were supported and maintained by Sun, similarly to products in /usr. Installed software will always be out of date to some extent. That's not a good reason to dispense with it all and to expect the sysadmin to replace it all with newer releases. Only madness and pain lie in that direction.
Installed software products should be visible and available to users. Otherwise they won't even know that it's there. Why go to all the trouble of delivering it when it won't be used? Defaults are all-important for the user experience. Yes, a GUI mechanism to modify user PATH settings would be a good thing, but the initial setting should still be to include all possible collections. Having alternative PATH personalities is fine. Having no compilers in the PATH is not. This message posted from opensolaris.org
