* Brian Utterback (brian.utterb...@sun.com) wrote: > Are you saying that a question about which should be the default is too > difficult to figure out, but deducing why the flags don't work, deciding > that what the proper path order is and then modifying either /etc/profile > or $HOME/.profile is acceptable?
Mostly, yes. If you take someone 'off the street' (ie someone who has never touched a Solaris environment) and ask them to choose between using a Solaris userland or a GNU userland (which is what the question is) I'll bet that a majority of those questioned won't know how to answer. Because they don't understand what they're being asked to choose between (ie what are the differences between a Solaris userland or a GNU userland and why do they care). Now, take someone who has used Solaris and is familiar with it's userland. They'll notice at some point that the GNU userland is 'enabled' and modify their PATH accordingly to drop /usr/gnu/bin from their PATH. If they don't already by placing their own customized shell startup files on the system after they install which doesn't have /usr/gnu/bin in the PATH. Is it a burden to make the Solaris faithful do this? Yes it is, but they are far more likely to be able to deal with the burden with far less trouble than someone new to Solaris. One of the goals of OpenSolaris 2008.x is increasing adoption (and contrary to what some might think, not at the expense of alienating existing users though it is certainly a fine line to walk). That means we need to lower the barriers to entry for those who aren't using OpenSolaris and who may have never touched Solaris previously. Not to mention may not be as 'technically savvy' as traditional Solaris users are/have been. > It is simple. Do we want the default environment to be a Solaris one or a > GNU one? If you want both, you have to provide a knob to switch them back > and forth. And at some point, we may have just that (perhaps even in the Installer). I'm not saying there isn't room for some improvement on this issue. What I am saying is that we need to take in to account new adopters and make it as simple as possible for them to 'get their legs under them'. In some cases, that means catering to a less experienced/technically savvy user which has traditionally not been a significant part of the Solaris userbase. -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
