Re: F40 Change Proposal: F40 Change Proposal: Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (System-Wide)

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On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 20:14 +0000, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:54 PM Aoife Moloney <amoloney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin
> > > 
> > 
> > One additional item to consider is to review
> > the packager guidelines for use of /sbin
> > (and /usr/sbin) in additional locations from
> > those involved directly with installing binaries.
> > 
> > In particular, I am thinking of the sysusers
> > examples where the use of /sbin/nologin
> > should, perhaps, be changed to /usr/bin/nologin.
> > 
> > There are almost certainly other places
> > in the docs/guidelines.
> > 
> > The documentation updates are always
> > the most annoying in my experience.
> 
> We cannot change this without breaking backward compatibility. It'll
> have to stay that way until RHEL 9 falls out of support.


That is a good argument to not change it , why we need break backward
compatibility ? 

is not sbin for super users and bin for users ? 

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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