few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop
David Mansfield
fedora at dm.cobite.com
Thu Mar 27 17:40:35 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > The last part of your sentence is the key. /sbin and /usr/sbin exist to
> > keep tools out of ordinary users' PATH.
> >
>
> Which made sense when every machine was expected to have an
> administrator to do the complicated stuff for you, but fedora doesn't
> ship one.
>
Or maybe it existed to keep path search times down for users who didn't
need those extra programs there...
Of course, we now have 3123 programs in /usr/bin on my F8 system.
David
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