On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 09:44:31AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I think removing things that users are likely to type is better. We > want to discourage /etc from showing up in $PATH, so from my point of > view this is supportive of that.
Making sure that there are no executable things in /etc that aren't also in a common bin directory is obvious, and simple enough. Removing executable things from /etc is OK IFF we're confident that they aren't hardcoded and that nothing depends on having /etc in PATH to find them. For some things we know that we can't remove them (e.g., rmt). > I also think the opportunity to do this is *now*, while we've made a > large number of other incompatible changes to the system -- before it > stabilizes again. (I.e. this pseudo-minor/major release cycle for > Solaris Next.) Right. > That said, I think /etc/rmt has to stay. I see no large and compelling > reason the others need to stay, but I also confess the benefits of > removing the links are a bit small. > > Edit the case to exclude /etc/rmt, and I'll +1. If someone else feels > that the change is risky enough to derail it after that, then they are > welcome to do so (provided they are a member.) Non-member +1 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
