Am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2008, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > 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. FreeBSD does this better. Fedora does spew binaries all over the place. > > 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 :)). > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator > How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed > in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
