On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:19:08PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > The original reason for /usr/sfw was to prevent users from wandering > into External (extremely volatile; not necessarily compatible from > patch to patch) software. But with GNOME integrating into /usr/bin as > External and with the realization that the pain of torquing every > $PATH was much higher than the value (if any) gained from the > segregation, we've decided to drop the idea. > > (There are other reasons behind it, but the lack of a firm grounding > for differentiation by stability was the key issue.)
Pffft. How about avoiding the "Microsoft Explorer/Media Player" factor? In other words, having Sun recognize (in comparison to what microsoft did) that yes, their customers may want to run something OTHER than the sun-shipped browser/media player/GNOME version/.... Having the separation makes it feasible for your customers to choose alternative vendors for various components, and even having multiple vendors versions of similar products installed. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
