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

Tim Foster Tim.Foster at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 31 11:08:20 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 18:57 +0100, Bruno Jargot wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> > Firstly, you know this is specific to just Indiana, right - this isn't
> > OpenSolaris as a whole (heck, it's not even Indiana yet, as opposed to a
> > __developer preview__ of it)
> 
> Indiana will likely form the basis for all future Opensolaris
> distributions. The facts established with this preview may stick
> forever and we have to avoid the mistakes of GNU/Linux at the very
> beginning.

There's a distribution kit that allows anyone to create a distribution -
the people making the distributions can choose whatever they like, they
can put /usr/ucb at the top of the path if they want (imagine that!)

The point is - nothing's set in stone. Don't worry, read this:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-May/028846.html
and think positively.

	cheers,
			tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf



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