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

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Tue May 6 01:29:29 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 16:43 +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..

Arch made exactly this change this last year. [1] Their distro still
seems to work.

[1]
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/
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