On Wednesday 22 October 2008, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:32:13 -0400 > > > /topic FESCo-Meeting -- Features - Sbin Sanity - > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg00337.h > >tml - Ville Skyttä > > Are the feature owners going to be there to defend their feature? > I think that those folks having problems with tab completion or sudo > now will be much more able to modify their setup than the millions of > people who get confused because they can't run ifconfig after 'su' or > just as their user to gather information. > > So, my vote would be to keep the feature as it is, but add > documentation or other info to help the folks that are negatively > impacted by this feature to get their setup back to the way they like. > Release notes? One of the crucial points is that once */sbin is in PATH for everyone, things will start assuming that those things indeed are always in PATH. After that, local modifications that remove */sbin from PATH will result in breakage and thus _cannot_ be feasibly done. Reverting this feature *now* is just about the last possibility to do it without inflicting breakage. It will delay getting "millions of people who get confused" unconfused somewhat (== until F-11 I guess, and incremental improvements are easy to make later on as/if we find places to do them - even to earlier distro versions), but as I've said many times, IMNSHO (and not only mine) slight delay is a lot better than either the messy "*/sbin in PATH for good" result, or later trying to pry */sbin ouf of there, causing breakage. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
