tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Tue Oct 7 13:18:59 UTC 2008


Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:

> No, we don't start voting. We put things where it's sensible. That's usually
> incredibly obvious, and where it's a more difficult case, we make a decision
> based on a reasonable policy. Like with, say, "does it even work as
> non-root" as one element. Crazy talk, I know, but there you have it.

If it is so incredibly obvious, how did tcpdump end up in /sbin? Once
you have moved all the networking utilities and all the disk utilities
from /sbin, is there really anything left?


/Benny




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