On 14-Jan-08, at 10:19 PM, Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 1/15/08, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Question. >> >> I very much am not a fan of the GNUserland & bash, not least of >> which because they take the concept of standards and toss them >> right out the window. >> >> Part of why I came to Solaris in the first place when the OpenSol >> project launched was precisely because the default userland wasn't >> full of incompatible & self-inconsistent GNU tools. >> >> It seems that the default Indiana distribution wants to remove this >> compelling reason to use Solaris. >> >> So, I have a question/proposal. Is anyone other than myself >> interested in taking the Indiana bits that exist currently, and >> rolling a distribution with far saner and less linux-y defaults ? >> >> My idea is to have whatever development needs to be done ( and it >> ought not to be much ) run parallel to the indiana-proper >> development, in order to have something ready on indiana's official >> release date >> > > Hi John, > > I'm probably will sound cynical, but isn't this just changing the slim > installer code to not add /usr/gnu/bin to the path. Doing this should > take care of the non-compatibility complaints.Is there something else > I'm missing?
default shell and $PATH, yes. My vision involves not even having unnecessary GNU tools installed by default ( precise definitions of "necessary" can be hashed out later ) > > Are you proposing a project to take care of the above installer code? > And wouldn't it be a better solution to start a discussion on adding > an option to the installer that allows the user to select his > favourite userland. that was suggested a while back, and categorically rejected as being too confusing in the installer or some such thing. Hence, why I'm here seeing if anyone wants to make a saner indiana derivative. Once something's put together, I'd like to see about forking the installer & adding the options. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
