few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 26/03/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Seems entirely reasonable.