FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-22

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:11:32AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> I'm willing to help Ville and Matthew making a real solution, where sbin 
> stays "root commands" only, and where package that are right now get into 
> he search path for ordinary users (either with symlinks or by moving the 
> binaries). But it's IMHO best for everyone if we do that for F11. Come on, 
> we had /sbin not in the path for more then how many years, so what is one 
> half year more (especially as everyone that dislikes it is used to enable 
> it already)?

I'm pretty much resigned to leaving it as it now stands (sbin in the path)
and proposing "Sbin Sanity, Now With Actual Sanity" for the F11 development
process.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences