On 22/03/10 07:21 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Milan Jurik wrote: > >> Alan Coopersmith p??e v p? 19. 03. 2010 v 16:39 -0700: >> >>> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> >>>> I'm also of the opinion that it is a mistake to sacrifice familiarity >>>> for our paying Solaris 10 customers in favor of familiarity for people >>>> coming from Linux. >>>> >>> But clearly all our paying Solaris 10 customers already have dotfiles to >>> set $PATH, given how useless the default Solaris 10 $PATH is. >>> >> I would be very carefull with claiming "all our paying Solaris 10 >> customers"... >> > Okay, make it "Any Solaris 10 customer (paying or not) who actually wants > to use the system" - given the lack of some basic commands in the default > path, such as /usr/sbin/ping or /usr/ccs/bin/make, the Solaris 10 default > PATH shows we've long required customers to change the default PATH to > actually make the system usable to either sysadmins or developers. >
And...? I doubt there exists a system where system administrators and/or developers don't customise their path. Go back and read Octave Orgeron's email. The only difference is the names of which components are required and in which order to make a command line environment that the user likes. What the default path, in /etc/default and elsewhere, really impact are things like: - install scripts (that don't use ~/.foo) - how scripts run remotely when ~/.foo isn't read - at/cron jobs - other uses of $SHELL where ~/.foo isn't read Darren
