Directory structures in the future and other things I want.

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Am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2008, 15:57 -0600 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
> I dont know if this is a thread hijack, but I felt this was a better
> name than the previous threads subject. If it is.. my apologies..
> 
> My main 2 things I would like:
> 
> 1) If we were to say get rid of /usr/bin, /bin, or /sbin etc.. Heck I
> wouldn't mind if it wasn't named something people could understand
> like: /SystemPrograms/ . I justwould like to see it come from a joint
> Linux taskforce so that it's not just yet another OS weirdness. I say
> this because I am currently having to rewrite my .profile to deal with
> our growing HP-UX, AIX, SuSE, Red Hat, Solaris, and CygWin
> environment. Everyone but Linux seems to stick things in weird spots
> or you are expected to know that you can't use /opt/bin/blah all the
> time because its a symlink and it breaks on this blah blah blah.

FreeBSD does this better. Fedora does spew binaries all over the place.

> 
> 2) One thing that Jesse and Seth brought up was the one major RPM
> breakage that comes up every other release about why we can't do
> something really cool. And that is the problem with symlinks and I
> think directories. I would rather us do something really really
> radical like going to a package system that deals with that than
> moving items from /sbin, /usr/sbin/, /usr/myosrocks/sbin etc.
> 
> 3) I think I will +1 Bills very clear fix: Just add /sbin:/usr/sbin to
> everyone's path. Deal with 1 and 2 after 9 is out the door, and
> probably shoot for it to be 11 earliest (or if we never go to 10 or
> 11.. whatever the next series is called :)).
> 
> -- 
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
>