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

Mike Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Apr 23 23:47:32 UTC 2008


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Subject: Re:Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Date: 04/23/2008 05:46 PM
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> It will achieve the opposite to what we have today.
>   
No. It will promote proper program installation paths. Right now we 
basically have "Security Through Obscurity," which I thought was frowned 
upon in our world.
> Instead of users complaining about "where is ifconfig" we will be facing
> users complaining about "why are these unusable install-info, httpd,
> ftpd etc. polluting my PATH?".
>   
Who would complain about that? Why would you care if you have one extra 
program in your PATH? Is the world coming to an end? I don't see where 
all the hostility is being generated besides the fact that "it's different."
> I.e. Spot's proposal as well as symlink farms don't solve anything.
> To the contrary: They (re-) introduce the problems, the fact */sbin
> exists, so far has kept low.
>   
Symlinks should be dropped as a solution.
> Ralf
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