FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-22
Conrad Meyer
konrad at tylerc.org
Sun Oct 26 19:45:18 UTC 2008
On Sunday 26 October 2008 08:16:36 am Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > I disagree. Fedora not having gone this naive road is one detail why
> > users are using Fedora.
>
> Heartily agree. I've been using Unixy systems since 1984 or so, and /never/
> found a valid reason for {,/usr}/sbin in PATH for "normal users".
Did "normal users" have personal computers in 1984? Nowadays a lot of people
own and admin their own computer. Many commands that exist in {,/usr}/sbin
are useful even to non-root users on a shared system, such as ifconfig.
Regards,
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Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>
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