[OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on hipster; was Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 09/23/16 10:35 AM, Мартин Бохниг wrote:

> But why can's a user have both 4.9 and 4.7 plus 4.8 at once?

He can. There's no conflicts.

Here I have all of them installed

# pkg list developer/gcc*
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION 
      IFO
developer/gcc-3                                   3.4.3-2016.0.0.1 
      i--
developer/gcc-48                                  4.8.5-2016.0.0.1 
      i--
developer/gcc-49                                  4.9.4-2016.0.0.0 
      i--
developer/gcc-5 (userland)                        5.4.0-2016.0.0.0 
      i--


>
> That was defined like this in the manifests and I'm not yet anough familiar with ips to know every nitty gritty.
> But my proposal is to change this back to a scenario where I can install what I want (of those packages that are available).
>
> In /usr/gcc there is no filesystem namespace conflict.
> Or are the really poor symlinks to /usr/bin the the reason for this exclusiveness?
>
> IMHO not an ideal design, same remarks as with Qt4.8 versus whatever.
>
> I could look myslef, but let me simply ask: Are the symlinks to /usr/bin  part of the same package or of extra dedicated symlinks packages?
> If not the latter, then the former should in the future be changed into the latter, no?
>
> Forgive me if I am missing anything here.
> On my old OpenSXCE devel machine I got used to having all compilers installed at once (in /usr/gcc) and no silly symlinks to /usr/bin.
>
> It is sometimes very useful to have all compilers quickly at hand for an instant comparison.



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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department