few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> >>>> Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
> >>>>
> >>>> (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
> >>> Bringing it to fedora-devel.  The idea is that you'd only be 'littered'
> >>> with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package.  Otherwise your
> >>> stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin.
> >> But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
> >> third-party) packages.
> > 
> > But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
> > among other places.
> 
> Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin, 
> making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility? 
Silly.

> 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.
This proposal is in the same class of proposals proposing to abandon
"user accounts" and/or to use "root only".

Ralf