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?
I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a fhs-compat package. Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin. "root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before I invoke the command with sudo.