[companion-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 3

[Bart Smaalders]

John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:42:31AM +0100, John Rice wrote:
> 
>> "I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to 
>> the desired features of /usr/gnu/."
>>
>> I know what you mean. My goal in the orginal post was to have all the 
>> various OSS tools present on Solaris in a way that makes it very easy to 
>> build OSS software out of the box.
> 
> Stephen made it clear that the proposal is only intended to deal with the
> problem of name-conflicting GNU projects, and isn't intended to cover anything
> else. This seems reasonable to me. For a start, I think this currently deals
> with any problems we're likely to have. I'm not aware offhand of anything we
> may need to build that has naming problems.
> 
>> I'm hoping the combination of Bart's proposal on "Serendipitous 
>> discovery" and Stephen's "/usr/gnu/bin" proposal will go a long way to 
>> solving the difficulties of building OSS on Solaris. If other OSS tools 
>> are still missing, that would conflict with what's in /usr/bin then 
>> we'll need to look again and see if other hierarchies need to be 
>> introduced, hopefully this will not be the case.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> regards,
> john
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Note that the current proposal will allow those with unmodified
paths to build most open source freeware packages; those dealing
with particularly provincial packages will need to prepend /usr/gnu
to their paths.


-= Bart


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