few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 15:53 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> If I can add on the topic, on debian there has never been a (noticeable)
> difference between su and su -, and ip addr or ifconfig works as a user
> without having to prepend /sbin or /usr/sbin IIRC
> 
> I find often quite annoying that it does not work the same in Fedora/Red
> Hat distributions, and never seen anything break because of that.

+1

Debian and Slackware have got this right. This "feature" has annoyed the
shit out of me ever since I started using Red Hat, with version 5.2.

Of course being so long ago, I just learned to accept it and forgot
about it. Now that we're a "community distribution", can we please fix
this now?

> Anyway it should be taken in consideration whether current Fedora users
> would be annoyed by the change. IMO it should not cause any problem of
> sort, as it does not introduce obstacles and does not influence (I
> think) how stuff works now. It just makes things smoother, but that's
> taste.
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