Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 18:52:51 UTC 2008


Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:55:28PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
>>> I think we can simply create /sbin -> /bin and /usr/sbin -> /usr/bin
>>> for backward compatibility. Typing /sbin every time when I want run
>>> ifconfig or service <something> status is really annoying.
>> +1 
>>
>> I don't want httpd or nscd or hald in my path. Or halt, for that matter. But
>> anything that *is* useful for non-root users should be moved or symlinked to
>> bin.
> 
> Does that mean you're volunteering to maintain the magical, amorphous,
> ever-shifting, ever-controversial List Of All Binaries That Are Useful
> For Non-root Users? Oh boy!
> 
> Prepare to spend the next few months in arguments about what is and
> isn't useful to non-root users.

While you are at it, why don't you hide all the files in /bin and 
/user/bin that aren't useful to me today and just expose the ones I want?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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