Calum Benson wrote: > GNOME's user-admin preferences window, IMHO. I suspect a sizable > number of users would have insufficient knowledge to make an informed > choice, or just no preference at all, when confronted with such a > choice during installation (I count myself among them!). And that's > usually a sign that it's better just to pick a sensible default, but > allow it to be over-ridden later. > > Indeed - but in that case you have to decide what will 'just work' for most people, most of the time. If 'most' of the development for more-or-less-posix-like systems is being done for Linux, then that makes the default decision quit easy: make it so that the simple configure && make && sudo make install works. And that needs a GNU userland. Sadly.
I guess you might get away with root being POSIX if sudo remains in GNU land, but I can't help feeling that's a level of complication that has little upside and a big downside. Surely the answer is that, yes, the default is GNU. And right at the start of the install you can answer one question that will enable such questions to those that are able to understand them. All of the people making a fuss (well, apart from those throwing toys because they want a bigger say in the process) know how to answer that question, and what they want. But they probably didn't need dwaf-caiman anyway, did they? I do believe that having the user admin GUI wizard enable simple switching is also valuable - but the default it will use needs to be chosen somewhere too. James _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
