On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2008 02:02:44 Chris Snook wrote: >> Steve Grubb wrote: > ... >> > /bin/rpm uses something in /usr > ... >> I don't see why the above need to be in /bin or /sbin. > > It can help in (admittedly quite odd situations) where you need to, say, > reinstall grub or a kernel because you broke something ;o) Also, admittedly, in > that case, I was able to mount /usr before proceeding On the rpm5 list, Jeff Johnson mentioned that /bin/rpm was just a legacy thing that people expected and has since changed the package to install to $bindir (/usr/bin). Not that that applies here exactly, but making /bin/rpm usable when /usr is not available would require moving a lot of things to /lib. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
