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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Paul Eggert writes:
> > I've just checked am-utils, ntp, and pidentd, and all of them are
> > affected.
>
> No doubt other programs will be affected too. But these programs are
> a relative handful.
This list came up from the first three that came to mind (and that I
contributed to at some point). You create work for many maintainers for no
value to them whatsoever, only obscuring the configure scripts with
handling for solaris2.<x>, solaris<x> and some solaris<n> (or whatever)
when Sun comes up with a new name.
A continued burden which removes clarity from those scripts, in exchange
for a little less newby confusion (who will be confused by SunOS 5.x
vs. Solaris 2.x/x anyway).
Rainer