On 25/05/07, Hugh McIntyre <lists at mcintyreweb.com> wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > Hugh McIntyre wrote:
> >> - Include a shorter script that just prints "The equivalent Solaris
> >> command is prstat" and then exits.
> > For a point of reference, try running "rpm -i ..." on Ubuntu.
> >
> > I'm not suggesting the above, just pointing out it has been done. Taken
> > to the limit it could be pretty ugly.
>
> Yes, probably pretty annoying, especially for someone who has a path of
> /usr/bin:/opt/csw/bin and gets the warning message rather than a
> functional version of top later in the path.
>
> I only listed this in an attempt to list the various options discussed
> on the previous thread. Personally, the other options ("integrate top"
> or "wrapper that calls prstat") seem like better solutions.
Indeed. I just don't want Solaris to have the disease that many
GNU/Linux distributions do; too many programs that all do the same
thing, and for the most part, poorly.
No, I really don't need three hundred different text editors thank you
very much ;)
I prefer a "cream of the crop" approach, and where possible,
improvements to the core set, rather than including every utility just
because somebody prefers it.
There is an engineering, maintenance, documentation, etc. cost to
every program included.
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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