On 26/03/2008, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com) said:
> > Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin,
> > making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility?
> > 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.
>
> Seems entirely reasonable.
Because it's changing 500 packages, and you can't do the replacement
sanely in RPM anyway.
Surely a large proportion of those 500 packages will be rebuilt in the
F-10 release cycle anyway? However, I don't understand the second
point you make there?
J.