Jonathan Arsenault wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
I'd vote for appending sbin to regular users' $PATH by default. There are many tools in sbin that can be called as user to display at least some status information (or even just the help text). The clueless don't use the shell anyways and therefore don't care.
Many tool usable by user in there, like what ? ifconfig and iwlist are the exception and not the rule, ip that a user should use instead of deprecated ifconfig is symlinked to /bin already.
route, traceroute, nfsstat, alsactl, lpc, mkfs ... I'm sure you'll find dozens more.
Look at the 270'or so binary in /sbin and the 330'or so in /usr/sbin (/opt/gnome/sbin and /opt/kde3/sbin even) and tell me that they belong into a user path, if you think about answering yes to that then explain to me why they needed to be separated in the first place from normal bin. Lets just stuff hem all in a giant directory and be done with it ...
The question was not whether the file system layout as we know it still makes sense but whether non-root users would benefit from quick access to sbin binaries by default. Changing the default[1] PATH is the probably the most simple way to achieve that if you don't want touch individual packages and add extra symlinks. cu Ludwig [1] which means you'd be free to change it back -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE Labs V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org