few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Mar 26 18:45:29 UTC 2008


Le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why does a package need to know if a directory is a symlink or not 
> unless it is the one that creates it?

Are we 100% sure there is no collision between /bin and /sbin contents
today ?

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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