seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
(Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
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.
But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
third-party) packages.
But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
among other places.
Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin,
making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility?
Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served
flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are
one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having
commands work and sometimes not.
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