few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 17:06:50 UTC 2008


Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood at 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.

Bill




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