On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? Silly. > 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. This proposal is in the same class of proposals proposing to abandon "user accounts" and/or to use "root only". Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
