[indiana-discuss] Standards ? An derivative proposal.

[Moinak Ghosh]

Anil Gulecha wrote:
> On 1/15/08, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Question.
>>
>> I very much am not a fan of the GNUserland & bash, not least of which because they take the concept of standards and toss them right out the window.
>>
>> Part of why I came to Solaris in the first place when the OpenSol project launched was precisely because the default userland wasn't full of incompatible & self-inconsistent GNU tools.
>>
>> It seems that the default Indiana distribution wants to remove this compelling reason to use Solaris.
>>
>> So, I have a question/proposal. Is anyone other than myself interested in taking the Indiana bits that exist currently, and rolling a distribution with far saner and less linux-y defaults ?
>>
>> My idea is to have whatever development needs to be done ( and it ought not to be much )  run parallel to the indiana-proper development, in order to have something ready on indiana's official release date
>>
>>     
>
> Hi John,
>
> I'm probably will sound cynical, but isn't this just changing the slim
> installer code to not add /usr/gnu/bin to the path. Doing this should
> take care of the non-compatibility complaints.Is there something else
> I'm missing?
>
> Are you proposing a project to take care of the above installer code?
> And wouldn't it be a better solution to start a discussion on adding
> an option to the installer that allows the user to select his
> favourite userland.
>   

   On similar lines, how would this distro be different from Indiana 
other than
   not having bash as the default shell and not having /usr/gnu/bin in 
the PATH ?

Regards,
Moinak.

> Regards
> Anil
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