On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian Smith wrote: > > If a GNU utility is a proper superset of the Solaris version, would patches > > to replace the Solaris version with the GNU version be accepted? > > I would think so, but it would depend on specific cases. > > > Or, is > > there some kind of rule that says that all Solaris functionality must be > > present without depending on any GNU-licensed software? > > Nope, since most of our desktop functionality depends entirely on GNU > licensed software.
I understand it is, but it's absolutely natural that a percentage of the users would read Solaris documentation and would expect some basic functionality (such as ZFS ACLs) be there when invoking commands such as ls or chmod. I think it would be frustrating to discover that the default userland tools would not support them, given that some of the "Solaris functionality" is not that strange, I would rather call it "basic functionality" of a file system. We've got hundreds of scripts that rely on Solaris' specifics and it seems not reasonable to me that defaults wouldn't support them, that's why I am and will be running Solaris (even at home). Moreover, in my opinion, "desktop functionality" should support even Solaris' specifics. I prefer using CLIs, but I would expect a "Security tab" on the file properties to support ZFS ACLs and so on. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss -- Ελευθερία ή θάνατος "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." GPG key: 1024D/FD2229AF fpr: 9E07 D40E 33A5 5993 6FC5 09A8 5BCF B1F2 FD22 29AF _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
