Incorrect order of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in path

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:00:05AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:43:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > We really should get rid of the destinction, and make all of /bin,
> > /sbin, /usr/sbin a symlink to /usr/bin, and then never bother again
> > about $PATH orders and namespace collisions...
> 
> This -- and the current approach of having everything in $PATH -- leads toa
> really cluttered namespace, making tab completion more frustrating than it
> needs to be.
> 
> I'd like to see:
> 
>  * commands which don't work at all as non-root left in usr/sbin and that
>    /removed from the default path; commands which are "system" commands but
>    work on some level as non-root could go to /usr/bin
> 
>  * and commands which aren't meant to be executed by a human in normal
>    course of operation put somewhere other than /usr/bin -- usr/libexec is
>    kind of quirky but there it is, or else use /usr/sbin for that (and
>    possibly discard the previous notion)
> 
> This is a lot of shuffling for not necessarily very much gain, but if we're
> going to have some sort of shuffling, it'd be nice to have one which makes
> the in-$PATH namespace cleaner.

  The full-scope cleanup looks very tempting:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ojgzJOfWB8XaC5kqyrv4IhR9snZKBI77a02R4cj1QM8/edit#slide=id.i0

  (Sorry for GDocs link, I don't know other source)

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