On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:44:09AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > >Replacement of important components of the userland seems rather too > >important for a fast-track.
The bar isn't whether something is "too important" but whether the case is "obvious," and this one seems to be. > >I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and > >replacing them with external commands. What happens when we need or want > >to diverge from upstream behaviour? We participate in the upstream community. If that fails we fork or replace (the old sources don't simply disappear). > >And is this just the tip of the iceberg? > > That bridge has already been crossed, and the precedent set. See for > example: /usr/bin/sum, /usr/bin/getopts, /usr/bin/kill, /usr/bin/sleep.... No precedent needed to be set. Nico --
