On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 at 23:37, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > > The intent is to keep the AIX installation pure so that it behaves like a > normal AIX system -- for better or worse. It's the only way to ensure that > anything tested on the system behaves consistently for any normal user of a > package tested on the system. > > The AIX OSS team have made an effort to segregate official AIX supported > packages and commands from FOSS packages and commands. There are some > commands, like tar, sed, make, that conflict, and there are other commands > where AIX is trying to ensure that customers don't assume an incorrect level > of support because a command is in the normal AIX system namespace.
That makes perfect sense. Perhaps, instead of adding things from /opt to the default path, or symlinks from /opt to /usr, it could be entertained to add more harmony for what /opt/ and especially /opt/freeware contain, without adding those things to the PATH. That way users who want to treat the cfarm machines uniformly could just depend on things being in /opt/freeware, and on linux systems, the things installed on the system can be just symlinked to /opt/freeware? _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
