On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:43:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> We really should get rid of the destinction, and make all of /bin,
> /sbin, /usr/sbin a symlink to /usr/bin, and then never bother again
> about $PATH orders and namespace collisions...
This -- and the current approach of having everything in $PATH -- leads toa
really cluttered namespace, making tab completion more frustrating than it
needs to be.
I'd like to see:
* commands which don't work at all as non-root left in usr/sbin and that
/removed from the default path; commands which are "system" commands but
work on some level as non-root could go to /usr/bin
* and commands which aren't meant to be executed by a human in normal
course of operation put somewhere other than /usr/bin -- usr/libexec is
kind of quirky but there it is, or else use /usr/sbin for that (and
possibly discard the previous notion)
This is a lot of shuffling for not necessarily very much gain, but if we're
going to have some sort of shuffling, it'd be nice to have one which makes
the in-$PATH namespace cleaner.
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