On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:13:48AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > The fact that we have to put /usr/gnu at the head of $PATH of new > users is a bit of a travesty, and I'm of the opinion that we should > reexamine *that* particular decision...
This is merely one opinion. There are compelling business and architecture cases for having the default userland be approachable by the majority of users of other popular unix-like operating systems. The /usr/gnu isn't the default in my path either, but it makes a lot of sense to present a userland that's familiar to users of Linux, and similar environments. Anyone is free to create a distro with a different default shell, or default path. Anyone is free to change their path as well as their shell. Your fixation on /usr/gnu's presence in the default path isn't productive. Why make it harder to get users from Linux and elsewhere to adopt Solaris? > ... in which case much of the motivation behind *this* case comes into > question. (If /usr/gnu isn't the default for most users, then there > is little motivation to provide builtin wrappers for them.) I disagree. Modulo the issues about the profile shell, I see no reason why it matters that the ARC delve into the minutia of shell builtins. In general, that's an implementation or configuration detail of the shell. I would recommend against derailing this case in favor of one about a grand shell [re-]architecture. We should be making it easier add different shells for Solaris. Using this case as an opportunity to rail about Gnu is just divisive. -j
