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

[John Levon]

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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