few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:03 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
>>>> Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
>>>>
>>>> (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
>>> Bringing it to fedora-devel.  The idea is that you'd only be 'littered'
>>> with symlinks if you install an FHS compat package.  Otherwise your
>>> stuff just lives happily in (/usr)/bin.
>> But changing the path solves it without having to touch every (including
>> third-party) packages.
> 
> But it's not just about the path. It's also about finding it in scripts,
> among other places.

Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin, 
making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility? 
Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served 
flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are 
one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having 
commands work and sometimes not.

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   Les Mikesell
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