On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:00:05AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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. The full-scope cleanup looks very tempting: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ojgzJOfWB8XaC5kqyrv4IhR9snZKBI77a02R4cj1QM8/edit#slide=id.i0 (Sorry for GDocs link, I don't know other source) -- Tomasz Torcz To co nierealne -- tutaj jest normalne. xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx Ziomale na życie mają tu patenty specjalne. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
