On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:30 AM, seth vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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?
- The FHS makes no rules about the default PATH setting for users/root
Oh, I did not mean to imply that it did. My minor objection to getting rid of /sbin abstractly is that as a normal user I just don't really want to be exposed to the programs I can't execute in a meaningful way as a normal user.
- The FHS has no problems with symlinks for the files it requires
in /sbin and /usr/sbin
I was wondering about whether the FHS objected to "cross linking" programs that are used by both root and normal users that reside in /sbin with symlinks in /usr/bin which is in the user's path already?!
John