Philip Brown wrote:
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/....
And you can... but making it harder to run the stuff Sun ships
to make it easier for experts to run other code seems like exactly the
wrong set of tradeoffs.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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