On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> James Carlson wrote: >> Cedric Blancher writes: >>> On 21/06/2009, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: >>>> Sorry for missing this the first time but what is the >>>> justification for >>>> moving any utilities into SUNWcsu? SUNWcsu needs to be broken up >>>> into >>>> separate packages and not have additional content added into it. >>> >>> I believe putting the fundamental POSIX commands into a package >>> which >>> is always installed is the right thing. Otherwise you break scripts >>> without reason. >> >> There's no difference between SUNWesu and SUNWcsu from that >> perspective. Both are in the SUNWCmreq metacluster, meaning that >> they're installed on all Solaris systems and cannot be de-selected in >> any supported manner. > > Ok... but why was the "SUNesu" package originally be created ? Fair question, but as I no longer have access to Sun's internal data, I couldn't tell you. At a guess, it was from an earlier attempt at organizing the delivered software. It's also possible that it reflects a Sun internal organization issue; different groups work independently.
