Re: few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Jesse Keating (jkeating redhat com) said: 
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:18 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > 
> > Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it?
> > 
> > The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be
> > located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there
> > does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is
> > cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than
> > adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are
> > cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS?
> 
> I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a
> fhs-compat package.  Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin.
> "root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as
> non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before
> I invoke the command with sudo.

Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?

(Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)

Bill