[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Mark R. Bowyer]

Hi,

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>>     
>>>> The problem is making sure that you do not alienate the audience that
>>>> you currently have. Making non-Solaris compatible binaries the default
>>>> is a rather good way to do that in my view.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I completely agree.  And it's important that your vote counts.
>>>
>>> For me it is very difficult to use Indiana (doesn't install my shell) so I 
>>> avoided it except when I need to.
>>>   
>>>       
>> "pkg install tcsh" didn't take long.  For an experimental distribution 
>> in a sea of Linux I think it does pretty well.  If we keep it like this 
>> when we get around to shipping Solaris Next, it would be a different 
>> issue.  But changing the default PATH is an easy fix.
>>     
>
>
> Really?  Very different when you're NOT in the US and/or installing a
> stand-alone system.
>
> (I've typically fixed this using  pkgadd -d ......

Well, I'm *not* in the US ;O)  But yes, the Cultural Imperialism option 
does still default to on.

Ta,
Mark.