On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:06:42AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> We spent nearly a decade trying to educate users about the existence of >> /usr/sfw, and discovered in that time that they just don't pick up on it. >> They know about /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and the places they install their own >> software, and pretty much nothing else. We've seen first-hand, and with a >> lot of aggravation (and support calls) that segregation leads to disuse >> and >> dissatisfaction. >> > Uh, wasn't that the point of sfw?
Yes, but it worked far too well, even for those supporting segregation. It led to customer dissatisfaction, and eventually we realized it was a mistake. My point is that we learned from /usr/sfw that people don't find things if they're not in /usr/bin. This implies that if we now decide to stick things in places other than /usr/bin, people won't find them, complain that Solaris doesn't provide the software they want, and cost us money and time. I think /usr/sfw is a *great* example of how not to do things. Danek
