On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:40:41AM -0500, Kyle McDonald wrote: > PATH is the solution to this. It's a good solution. The developers that > we are looking to attract to work on solaris should have no problem > understanding how to configure their path for their preferences.
The problem with *PATH is that it's too difficult to use. Wanna change it? First you need to know what shell you're using, then you need to edit the right dot files. That's insane -- try building a GUI around that. Sure, JDS/GNOME could have a different authoritative location of *PATH configuration and the stock dot files could preserve whatever *PATH are set by the GUI environment, but when logging in without a GUI you lose, or if you edit your dot files and do the wrong thing, you lose. This isn't friendly. You and I know how to maintain our dot files, but our mothers and grandmothers don't. Nico --
