--- On Wed, 10/17/12, Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 4:58 PM > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Reginald > Beardsley wrote: > > > > We have similar silliness w/ /usr/X11 being a tree of > links pointing to /usr. Again, setting the default > PATH properly in the system files is much cleaner. > > Many paths are already burned into software on existing > CD/DVDs or used as default search locations by existing > software. The /usr/X11 path is a common convention > established long ago and is not Solaris specific. > > The problem is not really the symbolic links. The > problem is if there is a clear plan for how things will > finally be in the future. Actually, you have /usr/X11, /usr/X11r6, /usr/X11R6, /usr/bin/X11 and probably a few others not counting /usr/openwin and /usr/dt. So far as I can tell the "conventions" are denumerably infinite. But that's not my point. If they need to be in /usr/X11/bin why are they actually in /usr/bin? Yes this does require that PATH contain "/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin" but is that so difficult? Could we please have them in one part of the namespace instead of several? Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
