[indiana-discuss] Standards ? An derivative proposal.

[John Sonnenschein]

On 14-Jan-08, at 10:19 PM, 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?

default shell and $PATH, yes. My vision involves not even having  
unnecessary GNU tools installed by default ( precise definitions of  
"necessary" can be hashed out later )

>
> 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.

that was suggested a while back, and categorically rejected as being  
too confusing in the installer or some such thing. Hence, why I'm here  
seeing if anyone wants to make a saner indiana derivative. Once  
something's put together, I'd like to see about forking the installer  
& adding the options.