Directory structures in the future and other things I want.

David Mansfield fedora at dm.cobite.com
Fri Mar 28 14:01:51 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 19:49 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
> > nonessential command binaries, /sbin and /usr/sbin are for system
> > binaries.  I personally am a fan of the organization, but +1 to
> > the adding /sbin:/usr/sbin to everyone's path.
> 
> If so it has to go at the end - several tools install /sbin and non /sbin
> versions of the same name.
> 

Probably it should be the same as what root gets, or what you get with
'su -' which is /sbin ahead of /bin and /usr/sbin ahead of /usr/bin.
Otherwise won't it still be confusing if 'su' and 'su -' work
differently?

David





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