few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Bill Nottingham]

Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood at gmail.com) said: 
> > Because it's changing 500 packages, and you can't do the replacement
> >  sanely in RPM anyway.
> 
> Surely a large proportion of those 500 packages will be rebuilt in the
> F-10 release cycle anyway? However, I don't understand the second
> point you make there?

To do a full /sbin -> /bin migration, you'd need to:

1) Rebuild all packages to change paths
2) Maintain a list of things that are commonly referenced by third-party/local
scripts by path
3) Build a package that provides those symlinks

I fail to see how this is more efficient than just modifying $PATH. (Actually
I fail to see what horribly necessary commands are causing this to be a
big issue, but that's beside the point.)

You can't just symlink /sbin to /bin, because that will blow up RPM
very badly.

Bill