few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Valent Turkovic]

2008/3/26 Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com>:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 14:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > Will Woods (wwoods at redhat.com) said:
>  > > I actually created a Feature page after a discussion about this on
>  > > #fedora-devel earlier this week:
>  > >
>  > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity
>  > >
>  > > I think it summarizes the problem and (one) proposed solution fairly
>  > > well. Feel free to expand/edit it..
>  > >
>  > > Comments?
>  >
>  > Just fix $PATH. It is much much simpler.
>
>  It's definitely simpler. And it's been the default in other distros
>  (e.g. Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu) going back at least a decade. It's also
>  the default in Mac OS X.
>
>  But it's not the default in Fedora, and I can't figure out why.
>
>  I wrote up the SbinSanity feature assuming that we had intentionally
>  changed *away* from having /sbin in the path fairly recently - like
>  during the Fedora Core days - and so someone must have had a damn good
>  reason to make that change. I assumed there was weeks of discussion
>  sitting in mailing list archives somewhere explaining the exact reasons
>  for the choice and making a very convincing argument for keeping them
>  separate.
>
>  Now that I do some research I see that /sbin has not been in the normal
>  PATH as far back as RHL9 and probably going back to RHL6 or earlier. I
>  think it's just Always Been Like That. So there's no discussion and no
>  convincing argument.
>
>  Therefore: I'm with notting. Let's add /sbin:/usr/sbin to the path for
>  normal users.
>
>  -w

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