James Carlson wrote: > 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.
Erm... AFAIK the (now defunct) "commands&&utilities" group spearheaded by Tim Sparlin owned these tools since a long time (AFAIK at least since six years). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
