On Dienstag, 23. Juni 2009, Theodore Kilgore wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Andy Walls wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > >> Hi list! > >> > >> It seems the path to lsmod tool is hardcoded in the Makefile for > >> out-of-tree building of v4l-dvb. > >> Now at least gentoo has moved lsmod from /sbin to /bin. > > Sorry, but is it considered impertinent to ask why that lsmod should be > moved from /sbin (system binaries, and lsmod certainly is one of those) > and stick it into /bin instead? Is there any cogent reason for doing a /sbin are binaries that only root should use. But lsmod can be used by users, too. Suse also has only /bin/lsmod I think. I don't know too much about the reason for the move, but it was long ago - version 0.9.11 contained that move and was released around year 2003. Gentoo ebuild added /sbin/lsmod as compat symlink for things still hardcoding the path, but that was removed 2009 - 6 years should be enough. > thing like that, which may have escaped my attention? Unless one is making > some very small distro for some very small hardware and (say) one of /bin > and /sbin is symlinked to the other, I find a change like that to be > extremely puzzling. So, really. Why? For a real answer to "why", do ask module-init-tools maintainer. Regards Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
