Well, you might know the history, but A lot of newcomers to Linux don't. It's nice and dandy to change things and I fully agree that we shouldn't be beholden to the FHS structure. Shawn. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > Bill Crawford > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:58 PM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > Subject: Re: few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop > > > On 27/03/2008, Shawn Starr <sstarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries > (static-bin). We needed this back when live CDs didn't exist, > or if you somehow foobared your GNU libc you had /sbin/sln > (static link) to fix a system, now a days you pop in a CD, > chroot to the saddened Linux system and repair it easily. > You used /sbin as your emergency kit and superuser tools. > > Gee, thanks for the history lesson. > > Of course, if you can find me an example of dynamic linking from the > time when "sbin" came into existence (other than on VMS) let me know > ... > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
