On Aug 16, 2015 2:59 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 16.08.2015 um 20:52 schrieb Eric Griffith:
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>>  > *No one else* suggested discarding /sbin. Doing so
>>  > will break decades of stable open source and free software.
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>> Didn't Arch move /usr/sbin to just be a symlink to /usr/bin?
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> maybe
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> but even if not, it don't matter and would not break *anything* because after that *both* paths would be valid, independent from which unix-like OS you start a script with a hardcoded path
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> and it would avoid the topic to ever happen again
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> now that we survived UsrMove (even if there are still broken packages like glibc providing only /sbin/ldconfig and breaking deps when packages using /usr/sbin/ldconfig - and the same for perl) that change would only make things really clear
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I knew that it -shouldnt- break anything, though I'm sure that some obscure app has some weird functionality that relys on a sbin/bin split, I was just pointing out that any major breakage should've already been caught and handled by at least one fairly major distribution