few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Shawn Starr]

> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Timothy
> 
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:06 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries (static-bin).
> 
> That's not what the FHS states
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard>.  /bin is
> for "Essential command binaries that need to be available in 
> single user
> mode; for all users (e.g., cat, ls, cp).", and /sbin is for "Essential
> system binaries (e.g., init, route, ifup).", and similarly for /bin
> and /sbin that resides in /usr, but with the added 
> "Non-essential" bit.
> The key, IMO, is that the ${prefix}/bin is meant for all users, where
> ${prefix}/sbin is not (restricted access).

Exactly, and most binaries were statically built when you didnt have /usr mounted, but even then libc resided in /lib.  But regardless,  the FHS is not that old because it doesnt even mention the reason /sbin existed as Alan pointed out. I wouldn't go fully by what the FHS states vs the historical reasons.


> 
> Back to the question at hand...  Now I am not opposed to (not that my
> opinion makes a difference in this) symlinking the 
> appropriate binaries
> from ${prefix}/bin to ${prefix}/sbin for FHS compliance and 
> support for
> older things and have that provided as a separate package (thank you
> Seth for reminding me ;).
> 
I would rather not go that route, just append /sbin /usr/sbin in $PATH at end and be done with it.

Shawn.