On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
I dont know if this is a thread hijack, but I felt this was a better name than the previous threads subject. If it is.. my apologies.. My main 2 things I would like: 1) If we were to say get rid of /usr/bin, /bin, or /sbin etc.. Heck I wouldn't mind if it wasn't named something people could understand like: /SystemPrograms/ . I justwould like to see it come from a joint Linux taskforce so that it's not just yet another OS weirdness. I say this because I am currently having to rewrite my .profile to deal with our growing HP-UX, AIX, SuSE, Red Hat, Solaris, and CygWin environment. Everyone but Linux seems to stick things in weird spots or you are expected to know that you can't use /opt/bin/blah all the time because its a symlink and it breaks on this blah blah blah. 2) One thing that Jesse and Seth brought up was the one major RPM breakage that comes up every other release about why we can't do something really cool. And that is the problem with symlinks and I think directories. I would rather us do something really really radical like going to a package system that deals with that than moving items from /sbin, /usr/sbin/, /usr/myosrocks/sbin etc. 3) I think I will +1 Bills very clear fix: Just add /sbin:/usr/sbin to everyone's path. Deal with 1 and 2 after 9 is out the door, and probably shoot for it to be 11 earliest (or if we never go to 10 or 11.. whatever the next series is called :)).
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [1] gives good reasons for a lot of this... /bin is for essential command binaries, /usr/bin is for nonessential command binaries, /sbin and /usr/sbin are for system binaries. I personally am a fan of the organization, but +1 to the adding /sbin:/usr/sbin to everyone's path. -- ian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
