[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Move /usr/gnu/bin to front of path, add /sbin

[James Carlson]

David.Comay at Sun.COM writes:
> BTW, for those of you throwing stones at Dave Miner, please redirect
> those stones towards me as I was the one who asked him to make the
> change to the installer such that the default user would have
> /usr/gnu/bin at the front of their PATH.  Although I appreciate hearing
> people's opinions on this, what I really value would be hearing the
> experiences from both existing OpenSolaris users and new-to-OpenSolaris
> users who have used these settings as shipped.

If this were an actual ARC review, the attention signal you just heard
would have been followed by news and other official information.  ;-}

I'd say that prepending (or even appending) /usr/gnu/bin likely
doesn't make sense.

The point of /usr/gnu/bin is (like /usr/xpg4/bin and /usr/ucb) to
allow the user to compose a layered environment (atop /usr/bin) that
is "like" some non-native environment.  Moreover, the rules for
/usr/gnu/bin _already_ say that the utilities are expected to be in
/usr/bin as well -- preferably under their original names, unless
there are conflicts.

If the reference distribution is to adopt some other design center,
then we need to explore the idea of making that become the *new*
native environment.  Simply tossing /usr/gnu/bin onto the front of the
list backs us into an architectural change that needs to be more
carefully planned rather than just "happening."

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