few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:55 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:30 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> >  1. The FHS makes no rules about the default PATH setting for users/root
> 
> Oh, I did not mean to imply that it did. My minor objection to getting
> rid of /sbin abstractly is that as a normal user I just don't really
> want to be exposed to the programs I can't execute in a meaningful way
> as a normal user.
> 
> >  2. The FHS has no problems with symlinks for the files it requires
> >  in /sbin and /usr/sbin
> 
> I was wondering about whether the FHS objected to "cross linking"
> programs that are used by both root and normal users that reside in
> /sbin with symlinks in /usr/bin which is in the user's path already?!

Unless there's an addendum I missed they make no comments about it
whatsoever.

-sv