> Course, it would > help if > there was a locate command on Solaris,
Dear Sir, if you need to use the `locate` command to find something, you have a MUCH bigger problem. You shouldn't have any software "installed" on a system without the said software coming on the system as a package, and packages are *easily* queriable down to every single file much faster than with `locate` hack. > and some > effective > HTML documentation detailling out all the tools that > exist > on the Solaris install (since every argument I've > heard about > doing this relies on the issue that users can't find > the tools) Again, man pages are much faster to search through and locate the correct information, they are also a standard that works across all UNIXes, and should be used accordingly. HTML documentation has no place on a UNIX system. It's hopelessly inefficient compared to UNIX man pages. I know Linux man pages are basically useless babble, but one shouldn't assume the same is true on UNIX. > All this is going to do is further confuse the issue > on Solaris > WRT buildling open source software. I believe that was his goal to begin with. Unfortunately, in this case the old "any publicity is good publicity" will not have the desired effect. On the contrary, and one can clearly see here that it's already starting to backfire. > However, all this will really serve is to make some > open source software build > a little easier out of the box, but will continue to > let folks just assume that > the software builds correctly. Agreed. We are going about it in a completely wrong way, trying to react to the effect instead of reacting to the cause! The correct way to fix this whole situation is for Linux developers to migrate to Solaris, and forget about Linux. That would fix all these compilation issues. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
