Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Plocher wrote: 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.

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sarah Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There simply wasn't time. And, since this is a prototype we felt that the way we did this was ok. In actuality though, some of Indiana has been ARC'd. The installer pieces were ARC'd as part of Dwarf Caiman(SXDE). Oh, a couple of other things

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:58 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I tried to configure a recent mplayer its configure has now deteriorated to requiring GNU grep (grep -q, what does that mean?) grep -q is accepted by /usr/xpg4/bin/grep. According to the precedent set by PSARC 2005/683, it's a

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread John Sonnenschein
As I've mentioned numerous times before, it's not the particular implementation users are after, it's functionality. users don't want gnu tar per se, they want tar -z... or tar -j. We can have a standards compliant tar with the -z or -j options, and I'm sure ARC won't complain too much.

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread John Plocher
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

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-06 Thread Kyle McDonald
John Plocher wrote: 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. I think there is something being missed

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread John Plocher
Shawn Walker wrote: Tell that to whoever violated ARC by putting /usr/gnu at the head of $PATH in the indiana preview ;) No violation of ARC occurred. ARC is not a required process until consolidations are integrated, etc. On the other extreme, it would be extremely stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 05/11/2007, John Plocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Tell that to whoever violated ARC by putting /usr/gnu at the head of $PATH in the indiana preview ;) No violation of ARC occurred. ARC is not a required process until consolidations are integrated, etc. On the

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread Sarah Jelinek
John Plocher wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Tell that to whoever violated ARC by putting /usr/gnu at the head of $PATH in the indiana preview ;) No violation of ARC occurred. ARC is not a required process until consolidations are integrated, etc. On the other extreme, it

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread Sarah Jelinek
hasn't been completed, but that they many of them haven't even been started! There simply wasn't time. And, since this is a prototype we felt that the way we did this was ok. In actuality though, some of Indiana has been ARC'd. The installer pieces were ARC'd as part of Dwarf