On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:23:13AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > In the case of the various Linux flavors, there is no absolute spec. > (The LSB may become one, but its a work > in slow progress.) The best we can strive for is a compromise that > minimizes porting effort and makes the > transition of applications and fingers from multiple Linux based > environments to Solaris as easy as possible. > Perhaps if/when the LSB is of sufficient quality we could consider a LSB > enviroment, but so far as I know > there is no current demand for this. A number of "LSB qualified" > applications would seem to be necessary > before such an environment would be worth the effort.
I think this is an excellent argument for saying that it's too early to agree to a good name for what is proposed to be /usr/gnu. Therefore it might be better to go with /usr/opt/gnu-coreutils and other /usr/opt/gnu-*, but still add non-conflicting paths to /usr/bin. Nico --
