On 5-Nov-07, at 10:41 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 05/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 5-Nov-07, at 7:15 AM, Steven Stallion wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:34:08 +1300, Glynn Foster >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> Do you want to do a mock-up of what that might look like? I fear >>>> (and >>> this >>>> is >>>> purely an uninformed guess) that you're only going to alienate >>>> *more* >>>> users than >>>> you'll make happy. >>>> >>> >>> This sounds like a solution looking for a problem :) >>> >>> Please correct me if I am wrong, but one of the primary goals of the >>> new >>> installer is simplicity. Why go to the trouble of selecting a >>> runtime in >>> the installation? I certainly would not want to instate a GNU >>> runtime for >>> *every* user on the system. >>> >>> Simply put, why not have the option of selecting a runtime post- >>> install by >>> modifying your PATH (this is precisely what we do today)? If you >>> want a GNU >>> runtime, simply place /usr/gnu/bin at the head of your PATH. Still >>> want >>> xpg6? How about a BSD runtime? This is functionality we already have >>> today, >>> why not keep it around in Indiana? >>> >>> If you want to change the default PATH (in effect setting the >>> runtime for >>> each user), you have the option of changing /etc/profile etc. >> >> >> Tell that to whoever violated ARC by putting /usr/gnu at the head of >> $PATH in the indiana preview ;) > > No violation of ARC occurred. ARC is not a required process until > consolidations are integrated, etc. You will see that the Sun > engineers making those changes made it clear that any changes made > would go through ARC once they were ready.
not really my point here... you're aiming for simplicity. Manually setting $PATH and $SHELL is not simplicity. Forcing everyone to use the GNUserland isn't either. An dialog box somewhere in the 'advanced' install path I think, is. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
