On 03/ 2/10 03:57 AM, casper....@sun.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Garrett D'Amore<gdam...@sun.com> wrote:
I'm just thinking, isn't it time we just bit the bullet and told our users
to start using the POSIX defaults, instead of continuing to supply the
legacy compatibility stuff forever.
It would save a little space, and maybe we could get rid of /usr/xpg4/bin ?
I think a better idea is to move them to a separate package which is
not installed by default.
I believe a number of scripts requires certain tools from that package so
I think we always need to install them; however, I think it is better
that we try our level to merge them into the standard location.
And *that* is what I was saying. I think we should finally adopt the
POSIX semantics.
*Most* of the utilities have the same source code, but there are
exceptions: at least grep, sed, and more. (Notably the XPG4 version of
more is closed while the /usr/bin/ version is not.) I suspect that there
may be others.
- Garrett
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