Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

[Toshio Kuratomi]

max bianco wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:50:23PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>  > > What happens if a debian user types 'ifconfig' to find his IP address?
>>  > $ ifconfig
>>  > -bash: ifconfig: command not found
>>
>>
>>  If the goal here is "provide users with an easy way to find their ip
>>  address", I don't think changing how one calls an arcane command like
>>  ifconfig is really the solution. Instead, there should be a shell script
>>  named something like "myip", which will then just return that.
>>
> +1 but you can get your ip from the network applet, how many "average"
> users are dropping to a terminal to do anything?
> 
In which case, why continue to argue that users will be confused that 
ifconfig is in their path?  By your argument users have applets and 
powerusers have the terminal where /sbin/ would be a great convenience 
to them.

-Toshio

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