Marcel Telka wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 17:07 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> Darren Reed <Darren.Reed at Sun.COM> wrote: >> >> >>> /usr/sfw was fairly straightforward - where we installed software that >>> was bundled but not part of ON. This was problematic for many because >>> the default paths of various environments do not include /usr/sfw. >>> Not quite. It was software we weren't willing to support as Stable/Committed because the specification was controlled by an outside body. It was placed in a separate directory because we wanted it to be an "opt-in" choice to have access to such utilities.
Many components in /usr/bin (or /usr/*/bin, such as /usr/dt/bin) aren't part of ON. The main reason that sfw is a different consolidation than ON lies more in sfw not wanting to conform to ON's rather stringent build policies. >> For me, it would be important not to confuse /usr/sfw with /usr/gnu >> and to only put GNU (FSF) software into /usr/gnu and not arbitrary free >> software (even though this software may be under the GPL). >> > > If I understand it correctly you want to put GNU software into /usr/gnu > and non-GNU software under /usr/sfw. Then the question is what we will > do in case when some non-GNU software (placed in our /usr/sfw) becomes a > GNU software? Will we move the software into /usr/gnu or not? > We want to start putting all user utilities with non-conflicting names into /usr/bin. Death to sfw! We intend to make the stability commitment clear on the man pages (and not by PATH) - this is why all of these utilities are required to have a (perhaps tiny) man page - only a synopsis, attributes section and pointer to other documentation are required. Only the name conflicted gnu utilities need to go into /usr/gnu/bin. Just like /usr/xpg4/bin! I'd hope that all the name conflicted utilities in /usr/sfw/bin are gnu, so that we can first turn /usr/sfw into just a bunch of symlinks and eventually get rid of it altogether. So speaks the man who created (in concept; don't blame me for the name) /usr/sfw. It seemed like a good idea at the time and was demanded (in concept) by very senior folk. - jek3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20070124/2a86aeea/attachment.html>
