Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 22:08:34 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:43 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > - Complete elimination of sbin vs. bin dirs. Just put everything in
> > bin. This is probably a bad idea anyway, since it really shows bad
> > form. And who knows, we might have more than 32768 dentry's in bin
> > some day, and that would be bad for ext3.
> > - Picking the commands that make sense for non-root users and moving
> > them from sbin to bin (ifconfig and route, for instance). Isn't
> > that
> > why mount(8) lives in /bin anyway?
>
> A lot of this is dictated by the FHS. If we were to eliminate the
> sbin/bin distinction, we would definitely not be LSB compliant, and
> while this may have little value to Fedora, it definitely does for RHEL.
>
> Symlinks are fine, but we need to be very careful what we move/delete,
> to ensure that we're not breaking LSB. (Or, if we really want to do it,
> try to amend LSB/FHS)
>
1) Fix rpm to sanely deal with symlinks to directories
2) Remove /sbin directories
3) ....
4) Profit!
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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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