On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:46:27AM -0700, Darren Reed wrote: > 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.
Moreover, the new default path is backed into the user's dot files at account creation time. If you deploy Solaris Next in an environment where user accounts already exist then those will be completely unaffected. I don't understand the sturm un drang over the /usr/gnu/bin-first-in- default-PATH thing. It's a NON-ISSUE (except for GNU tools like ls and chmod where lack of support for Solaris-specific features creates problems. Nico --
