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
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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