[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to remove /usr/sfw and its dependencies from the base O/S...

[J. Estes]

I would have them be completely divorced from the core O/S, such that core utilities like pkgadd/pkgrm are not dependent on 3rd party software, such as libopenssl.so, nor libgcc_s.so.  Both /opt/sfw _and_ /usr/sfw should be configurable to be not installed at all, if the person installing it so desires.  If they are absolutely required (and in my estimation, there should be no reason for them to be required), then the core O/S utilities should be statically linked so that they do not conflict with other versions that may be installed at a later by the user.  This gives the user the freedom of choice to use /usr/sfw or /opt/sfw, or not.

joele54
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