few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Horst H. von Brand]

Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood at gmail.com) said: 
> > > Because it's changing 500 packages, and you can't do the replacement
> > >  sanely in RPM anyway.
> > 
> > Surely a large proportion of those 500 packages will be rebuilt in the
> > F-10 release cycle anyway? However, I don't understand the second
> > point you make there?
> 
> To do a full /sbin -> /bin migration, you'd need to:
> 
> 1) Rebuild all packages to change paths
> 2) Maintain a list of things that are commonly referenced by third-party/local
> scripts by path
> 3) Build a package that provides those symlinks
> 
> I fail to see how this is more efficient than just modifying $PATH. (Actually
> I fail to see what horribly necessary commands are causing this to be a
> big issue, but that's beside the point.)

Most programs in sbin won't work for a regular user, anyway.

It is much easier to set up the first/only user with the adequate PATH, and
leave it there.

The sbin vs bin distinction is useful on servers. It has a /very/ long
history by now, so changing that isn't easy.
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