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

[Joerg Schilling]

Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at Egenera.COM> 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.
> >   
> I think there is something being missed here. While most current Solaris 
> developers may have their dotfiles customized how they like them, aren't 
> we still talking about developers who write code for Solaris?

The problem is not the users that are able to customize dotfiles.

I believe that the best idea is to set up a skeleton that at the first
login asks the user about preferences and at the end informs about possible
problems with the chosen selection.

Jörg

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