<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re:Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10 From: Ralf Corsepius <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de"><rc040203@freenet.de></a> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com"><fedora-devel-list@redhat.com></a> Date: 04/23/2008 05:46 PM <blockquote cite="mid:1208990803.2861.15.camel@beck.corsepiu.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It will achieve the opposite to what we have today. </pre> </blockquote> 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. <blockquote cite="mid:1208990803.2861.15.camel@beck.corsepiu.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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?". </pre> </blockquote> 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." <blockquote cite="mid:1208990803.2861.15.camel@beck.corsepiu.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> </blockquote> Symlinks should be dropped as a solution. <blockquote cite="mid:1208990803.2861.15.camel@beck.corsepiu.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Ralf </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>