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

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> (a) If this is desirable, isn't it desirable regardless of whether 
> /usr/gnu exists?  After all, we already deliver GNU infodocs.

Yes, absolutely. Might there be value in defining a standard system GNU 
Info directory[1]? (If yes, then that would moot my point wrt the 
proposal at hand).

> (b) The location of a file in the filesystem and the consolidation
> which delivers it are almost entirely unrelated.  Almost all of the
> stuff in /usr/gnu would likely be delivered by SFW, though perhaps a
> few pieces might come from JDS.

Ah, of course yes <blush>. :)

> Why?  Because no one has historically been willing to do the work to 
> import this software into ON and maintain it there.

Hmmm. ;)

If there were more info docs delivered with Solaris, I'd very much like 
to pinfo integrated, and if no else did.. (I'll wait for these 
conditions to evaluate themselves in time first though ;) ).

> pinfo would almost certainly fall into this same bucket, despite its 
> ineligibility for installation in /usr/gnu.

Ah yes, of course.

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