>>> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities >> Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause
I'm not at all sure that this change would actually affect me - or most of y'all either. Since our target growth "market" for OpenSolaris is users of linux systems where gnutools are the defacto standard, then it seems clear that *they* certainly won't care about being "incompatible with old Solaris or POSIX". They are the ones who would find not having tar->gtar to be a bug. The only people who will care are the old Solaris users who haven't yet figured out how to set PATH= in their shell scripts and/or don't have their own .profile/.login/.bashrc/.cshrc scripts. Since I have my own .startup-scripts, and they explicitly set PATH, I won't even notice that this change has happened. [It would be nice if this choice was reflected in the new user account setup dialog instead of being hardcoded by the installer, but that is nit...] -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
