Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:18 -0500, inode0 wrote: > > > > Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it? > > > > The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be > > located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there > > does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is > > cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than > > adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are > > cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS? > > I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a > fhs-compat package. Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin. > "root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as > non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before > I invoke the command with sudo. Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks? (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.) Bill -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
