On 11/6/07, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to > > apply. > > Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class > of potential Solaris users to be confused and irritated and many of > them will walk away.
I don't see that /usr/gnu is necessary or sufficient. Generally, what people (the people I've observed anyway) expect is that - the up and down arrows work, and that command lines are editable - that typing top does the right thing - that typing emacs does the right thing - you get the idea... - and generally BSD behaviour is preferred over SYSV (so -k should be the default) So /usr/gnu is merely one way of addressing one part of the problem. For what it's worth, I would rather see (Open)Solaris fixed so that using /usr/gnu like this is unnecessary, but I think that the current choice is pretty reasonable in the circumstances. (Even if the subtle incompatibilities it generates do drive me up the wall!) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
