F20 System Wide Change: Change Packaging Guidelines to discourage requires into /bin and /sbin

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Tue Jul 16 20:18:16 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> said:
> * Have package maintainers patch upstreams to use /usr/{bin,lib,[..]}
>   instead of /{bin,lib[...]} (for instance, shebang lines)

#!/bin/sh is the cannonical first line for a Bourne(-compatible) shell
script, and nothing should change that.  Even on other Unix OSes with a
/bin->/usr/bin symlink, all the shell scripts referenced /bin/sh.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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