--- On Wed, 10/17/12, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote:
From: James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in
/usr
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Date: Wednesday
In chasing the Firefox/Java issue, I happened to look at the symlinks in /usr.
I'm rather disturbed by what I find.
There are 15715 in my installation of oi_151a. I *might* have created a
couple, though it's unlikely as I don't generally do that. I usually put such
things in
On 17/10/2012 16:50, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
In chasing the Firefox/Java issue, I happened to look at the symlinks in /usr.
I'm rather disturbed by what I find.
There are 15715 in my installation of oi_151a.
...
Yes, it is painful to force people to fix their scripts, but in the end,
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote:
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Date: Wednesday
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote:
When you have a big bunch of users and tell them Hey,
tomorrow
we upgrade, and then you can't work for a while because
your
scripts and programs will surely break (esp. those of
people
no longer in the institute), so
Reginald Beardsley wrote:
I'm a geoscientist and have spent most of my career working for big oil as
in majors and super majors. Those certainly qualify as large sites and are
a lot bigger than any academic institute I know of. So I'm acutely aware of
the issues and what things work and
On 10/17/12 08:54 PM, Roel_D wrote:
Ok guys,
Shake hands. If you continue this discussion we will have a nasty not so
symbolic link between you two.
:-)
--
Dr.Udo GrabowskiInst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT
www-imk.fzk.de/asf/sat/grabowski/
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote:
From: James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Date: Wednesday, October 17
On 10/17/12 11:21 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote:
...
Intentionally introduced set of links that aid in
compatibility and that
are put in place by the designer of the system (and that
hopefully
disappear at some point in the
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
We have similar silliness w/ /usr/X11 being a tree of links pointing
to /usr. Again, setting the default PATH properly in the system
files is much cleaner.
Many paths are already burned into software on existing CD/DVDs or
used as default
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
From: Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Date: Wednesday
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Reginald Beardsley
pulask...@yahoo.com wrote:
So *when* do they disappear? That's the question I'm raising. What are
criteria for acceptable links? Why are user site level customizations
cluttering a general distribution image?
I'm concerned about the
) udo.grabow...@kit.edu
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 10:11 AM
On 17/10/2012 16:50, Reginald
Beardsley wrote:
In chasing the Firefox/Java
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