few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Jonathan Underwood]

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

Doesn't step 3 render step 2 redundant?

>  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.
>

Why's that? Could/should rpm not be fixed?


J.