[HEADS-UP] systemd is now the default init system in rawhide

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:55:17AM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> The next sentence says, "/bin contains commands that may be used by both
> the system administrator and by users, but which are required when no
> other filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode)."  systemd
> qualifies on both counts: it may be used by users, and it is needed
> before other filesystems are mounted.

The usefulness in the distinction between /bin and /sbin is largely in "what
goes in the path". Generally, daemons don't belong in normal user's paths.

> > not want in the user path because a user itsself should never have to
> > execute it.
> Messing up the distinction between */bin and */sbin in the name of
> cleaner path completion is not progress.

But that's the point of the distinction.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences