James Carlson wrote: > David.Comay at Sun.COM writes: >> BTW, for those of you throwing stones at Dave Miner, please redirect >> those stones towards me as I was the one who asked him to make the >> change to the installer such that the default user would have >> /usr/gnu/bin at the front of their PATH. Although I appreciate hearing >> people's opinions on this, what I really value would be hearing the >> experiences from both existing OpenSolaris users and new-to-OpenSolaris >> users who have used these settings as shipped. > > If this were an actual ARC review, the attention signal you just heard > would have been followed by news and other official information. ;-} > > I'd say that prepending (or even appending) /usr/gnu/bin likely > doesn't make sense. > > The point of /usr/gnu/bin is (like /usr/xpg4/bin and /usr/ucb) to > allow the user to compose a layered environment (atop /usr/bin) that > is "like" some non-native environment. Moreover, the rules for > /usr/gnu/bin _already_ say that the utilities are expected to be in > /usr/bin as well -- preferably under their original names, unless > there are conflicts. > > If the reference distribution is to adopt some other design center, > then we need to explore the idea of making that become the *new* > native environment. Simply tossing /usr/gnu/bin onto the front of the > list backs us into an architectural change that needs to be more > carefully planned rather than just "happening." >
All we did was to create a .bashrc w/ a default path setting in a new user's home directory that has /usr/gnu/bin prepended. In other words, we setup the default user to have a layered environment. Use your editor of choice (another possible squabble narrowly avoided) and fix .bashrc or change shells or do whatever you want. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
