Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> James Carlson p????e v p?? 03. 07. 2009 v 12:46 -0400:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I am not sure if Sun internal data can give you more info, PSARC case
> from 1991 is not very talkative about the package content. But from
> package names - SUNWesu was not considered as part of the core cluster,
> the deliverables from SUNWesu were not so important.
> 

Excerpting from PSARC/1991/012:

8) esu "pkg" - extended system utilities all OS/NET binaries that do not
   belong in any of the other defined packages


In other words, the original kitchen sink...

Dave

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