[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Move

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> > BTW, for those of you throwing stones at Dave
> Miner,
> > please redirect
> > those stones towards me as I was the one who asked
> > him to make the
> > change to the installer such that the default user
> > would have
> > /usr/gnu/bin at the front of their PATH.  Although
> I
> > appreciate hearing
> > people's opinions on this, what I really value
> would
> > be hearing the
> > experiences from both existing OpenSolaris users
> and
> > new-to-OpenSolaris
> > users who have used these settings as shipped.
> 
> As a new person I think it is a bug that chmod
> doesn't work.  Most people aren't nerds like you and
> I, and they don't know that chmod doesn't work
> because gnu chmod is the default chmod and zfs is the
> default file system and gnu chmod doesn't work on
> zfs.  Why should anyone ever have to deal with this?

"gnu chmod doesn't work on zfs"?  This is news to me.  Is there any documentation?  Thanks.

Also--this is related to the original comment--since /usr/gnu/bin is the first entry in the default PATH, how come the awk in OpenSolaris is different from gawk?  This has caused problems in trying to compile certain packages.
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