[indiana-discuss] Standards ? An derivative proposal.

[Anil Gulecha]

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.
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> 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.
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> It seems that the default Indiana distribution wants to remove this compelling reason to use Solaris.
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> 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 ?
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> 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.

Regards
Anil