few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:18 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it?
> > > 
> > > The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be
> > > located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there
> > > does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is
> > > cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than
> > > adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are
> > > cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS?
> > 
> > I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a
> > fhs-compat package.  Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin.
> > "root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as
> > non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before
> > I invoke the command with sudo.
> 
> Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
> 
> (Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
> 
> Bill
> 

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.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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