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

[Shawn Walker]

On 31/10/2007, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray at sun.com> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Bruno Jargot wrote:
>
> > WTF?
> > I think this should be removed from Indiana until the community made a
> > decision whether /usr/gnu/bin should be present in the default PATH or
> > not. I think this is a serious issue and should not be taken lightly.
>
> For the record, here's one voice in support.  This seems like the
> best course of action if we care about reaching out to the huge
> community of *n*x-but-not-Solaris developers, the vast majority of
> whom have been living in the Gnu userland and will be upset about any
> changes unless they are huge improvements, which in most cases the
> Solaris Classic userland isn't.   The good things about Solaris are
> overwhelmingly kernel stuff not userland stuff. -Tim

That's nice, but don't forget that this is a change made to an
individual project. This is not a change made to Solaris proper. You
can pull out the pichforks and torches when that happens, until then
it's rather rude to complain to projects about how their contributors
decide to do things since that's part of the powers of a project -- to
make their own decisions.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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