On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:18 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> >
> > Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it?
> >
> > The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be
> > located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there
> > does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is
> > cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than
> > adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are
> > cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS?
>
> I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a
> fhs-compat package. Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin.
> "root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as
> non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before
> I invoke the command with sudo.
Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
(Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
Bill
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.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?