On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:09:56PM -0800, George Vasick wrote: > I just noticed LSARC-ext at Sun.COM was not copied on this thread > originated by Marc's reply on the 7th. > > Marc originally raised the following question: > > > usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11 > > Is this strange path necessary? Can't the subdirectories (bin and lib) > go directly to /usr? > > The answer to the first part is no. The commands in > usr/i386-pc-solaris2.11/bin cannot be moved to /usr/bin since they > conflict with existing Solaris commands. It is potentially possible to > eliminate them, however, since they are duplicates of commands already > installed in /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin.
If those commands shouldn't be in $PATH then just put them in a sub-directory of /usr/lib.
