On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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 > Bringing it to fedora-devel. The idea is that you'd only be 'littered' with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package. Otherwise your stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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