FWIW
There is no justification for breaking the expectations of long time SunOS
users because some other system does things differently. The all too common
practice of gratuitously breaking things because some twit thinks it should be
different is why I don't like Gnu/Linux.
At one time, my work account mounted via NFS on 6 different flavors of Unix:
AIX, SunOS, HP-UX. Irix, Ultrix and Clix (Intergraph's Sys V). Because I
typically had windows open on at least 4 or 5 of these at any time I had seven
bin directories in ${HOME} to deal w/ this.
${HOME}/bin - shell scripts that were system neutral
${HOME}/${ARCH}/bin - system specific scripts and links to preferred
executables (e.g. ${HOME}/SunOS/bin/df -> /usr/ucb/df )
This allowed me to make all the systems behave as I expected w/o further
thought. If I encountered a discrepancy I made the appropriate adjustment and
went back to work.
SunOS has a long history of providing many flavors of commands. No one will
object to adding a few. However, changing the behavior of commands that have
been around for 20+ years really doesn't make any sense. Many of these are the
way they are for very specific reasons. Just because some group of users or
potential users doesn't understand why is not a reason to change them. If you
feel compelled to disagree, please read
"Unix Style or cat -v Considered Harmful" first.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/
There is certainly justification for a man page explaining the salient
differences between Solaris and other systems. But changing OpenIndiana to be
something else is not a good idea.
Please note, I am not opposed to the deletion of features that have been
deprecated for many years. We desperately need to do that. The partially
completed transitions to new admin tools (e.g. smf(5)) can be really maddening
if you're poking around something you don't deal w/ often. Printer admin is
pretty confusing w/ lp, lpr and cups all mashed up together.
But turning OpenIndiana into a Gnu/Linux or *BSD distro won't get a larger
user base. Rather it will result in a smaller user base.
Have Fun!
Reg
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