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

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> > you're aiming for simplicity. Manually setting $PATH and $SHELL is not
> > simplicity. Forcing everyone to use the GNUserland isn't either.
>
> No, actually. I'd rather not have the GNU tools at the front of the path.

I do not like to have /usr/gnu in front of my PATH if that causes GNU variants 
of programs to overlay the UNIX versions.

There are many reasons for this, but let me give one that might not be well 
known:

The fact that GNU tools extensively document non-POSIX options, pople tend to 
write non-portable scripts as a result.

More GNU tools on Solaris could harm Solaris in case that the documentation
would not be enhanced to mark all non-standard extensions as such.

Jörg

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