few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 17:39:55 UTC 2008
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood at gmail.com) said:
>>> 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.
>
> Because it's changing 500 packages, and you can't do the replacement
> sanely in RPM anyway.
Why does a package need to know if a directory is a symlink or not
unless it is the one that creates it?
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Les Mikesell
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