On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
>>>> Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with
symlinks?
>>>>
>>>> (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
>>> Bringing it to fedora-devel. The idea is that you'd only be
'littered'
>>> with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package. Otherwise your
>>> stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin.
>> But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
>> third-party) packages.
>
> But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
> among other places.
Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin,
making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility?
Silly.
Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever
served
flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are
one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having
commands work and sometimes not.
This proposal is in the same class of proposals
proposing to abandon
"user accounts" and/or to use "root only".
Ralf