Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 08:18 -0500, inode0 wrote:
>
> Is Fedora committed to the FHS? Or is Red Hat still committed to it?
>
> The purpose was for root only programs of a certain class to be
> located in /sbin for example but including non-root programs there
> does muddy the experience for the end user. However I do think it is
> cleaner to make those programs available to a user by means other than
> adding /sbin to the default path of a normal user. A few links are
> cheap. Would links for those in /usr/bin clash with the FHS?
I think the idea is to place symlinks in (/usr)/sbin as par of a
fhs-compat package. Otherwise the bins actually go in (/usr)/bin.
"root only" is extremely muddy these days, especially because as
non-root I'd like to explore syntax options and usage statements before
I invoke the command with sudo.
Why not just change the path rather than litter the world with symlinks?
(Also, this is getting offtopic for -desktop rather fast.)
Bill