few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 17:17:33 UTC 2008


On 26/03/2008, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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.

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?

J.




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