[Caiman-team] [OpenIndiana Distribution - Feature #280] Changing default path to have Solaris bins first?

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Issue #280 has been updated by Juho Juopperi.


Sorry about beating the dead horse, but this bug keeps biting the new users trying to use e.g. ACL. It is also generally unintuitive not to be able to use operating system's documented built in functionality because of external tools with overlapping names prepended to default PATH.

Could you elaborate on the philosophy point? Where is this documented?
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Feature #280: Changing default path to have Solaris bins first?
https://www.illumos.org/issues/280

Author: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: OI Caiman
Category: Caiman (Installer)
Target version: 
Difficulty: Medium
Tags: needs-triage


Starting with OpenSolaris and now OI, /usr/gnu/bin is first in path, meaning ls -vd /some/dir won't show the ZFS ACLs unless /usr/bin/ls is executed directly. While this is no big issue, I still wonder if setting the GNU tools as the primary instead of the Solaris tools is a good thing. I propose we change this back to how it is in S10, with the Solaris tools as the primary.


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