On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:02:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:00 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > The rfkill utility isn't generally useful to normal users, so move it to > > > > /sbin with other system management executables. > > > > > > Seems to me that it's kinda useful, it should be possible for most users > > > to use the event and query interface if the /dev/rfkill permissions are > > > set up correctly. > > > > Sure, but (just like ip, ifconfig, or iwconfig) nothing stops people > > from using them in /sbin or /usr/sbin. It is just a convention for > > tools that are more for system management than for day-to-day use. > > > > Hopefully most people will stick with NM or whatever and may stay > > completely unaware of the rfkill utility. :-) > > So are you going to send an iw patch too? :-) As you wish...on it's way! > FWIW I like tools in bin/ since the default paths on most systems for > users don't include sbin/. FWIW, Fedora has been including it for normal users for a few releases now. I agree that it /bin vs /sbin is not strictly necessary, but it is standard practice. I guess it does enable some users to either drop those tools completely from their path or to order their path to select alternate versions of tools for whatever reason. Whatever... I think Fedora will move iw and rfkill to /sbin in any case. This enables them to be used before /usr is mounted and makes sure root has them early in his path. The posted patches are not strictly necessary for that, but they slightly simplify the install process. Plus, I think they are more compliant with standard practices. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
