[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contents for slim install]

[Richard Lowe]

Keith Bierman <Keith.Bierman at Sun.COM> writes:

> On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:37 PM, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>>
>> I think for the moment that Indiana should follow this precedent since
>> Indiana should replace Solaris Express and eventually find its way out
>> in a long-term support release such as Solaris 11^H^HNext.  And while
>> we definitely want to attact new users to OpenSolaris, we certainly
>> want to avoid creating new issues for existing users of the
>> technology.
>
> Since the new user is not going to put the new stuff in their path,  
> this ensures failure to capture.
>
> I have no objection to keeping things in /usr/gnu and friends ... IFF  
> the default PATH is hacked to have them show up first.
>
> Otherwise, we're putting a ton of effort into a waste of time. If all  
> we wanted to do is have Solaris out sooner, we have that already with  
> Solaris Express.
>

You have the choice between alienating your existing user base, or the
hypothetical new user base.  I think the best course is probably to
give the user a (gui-driven) choice.

I also think you overstate the result of not defaulting to GNU-ish
tools, but that's neither here nor there.

-- Rich