On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:43 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: > > - Complete elimination of sbin vs. bin dirs. Just put everything in > > bin. This is probably a bad idea anyway, since it really shows bad > > form. And who knows, we might have more than 32768 dentry's in bin > > some day, and that would be bad for ext3. > > - Picking the commands that make sense for non-root users and moving > > them from sbin to bin (ifconfig and route, for instance). Isn't > > that > > why mount(8) lives in /bin anyway? > > A lot of this is dictated by the FHS. If we were to eliminate the > sbin/bin distinction, we would definitely not be LSB compliant, and > while this may have little value to Fedora, it definitely does for RHEL. > > Symlinks are fine, but we need to be very careful what we move/delete, > to ensure that we're not breaking LSB. (Or, if we really want to do it, > try to amend LSB/FHS) > 1) Fix rpm to sanely deal with symlinks to directories 2) Remove /sbin directories 3) .... 4) Profit! -- 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
