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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 23:42:37 UTC 2008


Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>
>>>
>>> The ifconfig argument here is wasted, at least on me, since I agree 
>>> that ifconfig could be symlinked to /bin. I don't agree, however, to 
>>> put everything from */sbin/ into */bin/.
>>
>> Yet you've failed to show any problem that would result.  What kind of 
>> argument is that?  The biggest problem I see is that using 'su' vs. 
>> 'su -' causes different things, and even if you know the difference 
>> (which you probably don't want to learn while you are trying to fix 
>> something else), you may not want the other side effects of 'su -' 
>> like changing cwd.
>>
> 
> Since you insist on having an argument to this vary brief note...
> 
> It would just be plain wrong!
> 

And from which branch of this tree can you derive such a moral imperative?

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