On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:37 pm, Tim Foster wrote: > It strikes me that the delivery of software, and the location it's expected > to be found on across distributions is like herding cats. Even on Solaris, > it's been hard enough to standardise (cf. /usr/ucb /usr/xpg4, /usr/xpg6, > /usr/sfw/, /usr/gnu, etc.)
Sure, which is why I would like to see some type of standard for them to link to. This might be a good opportunity to deviate from Sun's poor use of /usr/sfw, and create a link for /usr/gnu. I know other software that is not gnu is in /usr/sfw, but a good chunk of it is gnu. What is /usr/bin was always a symlink, to point to the respective personality? I've done similar over the years where I symlink ~/bin/ld to point to Solaris or GNU's ld. If we could issolate these changes to shell, and be able to open a shell of each personality, with a common implementation for distributions, I think we'd go a long way to making it easier to run various applications that are envirionment specific (SysV and GNU being the obvious). I like the personality concept and having personality.conf files as you suggest is good. I'd like to have more than one personality though, call me schizoid...;-) But a way to have a personality configuration is a good idea, IMO. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
