Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 02:04 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 07:11 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > On 23.10.2008 21:53, Brian Pepple wrote: > > > > === Features === > > > > * FESCo rejected a proposal to revert the Sbin Sanity(1) feature. > > > > * For: kick_ > > > > * Against: dwmw2, j-rod, bpepple, notting, dgilmore, nirik > > > > * Abstain: jwb > > > > 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity > > > > > > I think FESCo is doing a big mistake here. > +1 > > > > So FWIW, I totally agree with what Ville said in > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg02180.html > > > > If you're writing scripts and not explicitly calling out the binary > > location, then it's not surprising if your scripts break later. I know > > it's nice to always assume a particular PATH, but it's not good practice > > any more than including or not including sbin in the PATH to begin with. > > And people using tab-completion can get used to the new binary names. > > > > FWIW, I think including sbin in the path is only about *10 years too > > late*, everyone else is already laughing that Fedora didn't do this, so > > really it doesn't need to wait for yet another 1.5 years to get done :) > I disagree. Fedora not having gone this naive road is one detail why > users are using Fedora. Heartily agree. I've been using Unixy systems since 1984 or so, and /never/ found a valid reason for {,/usr}/sbin in PATH for "normal users". -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
