Well, you might know the history, but A lot of newcomers to Linux don't. It's nice and dandy to change things and I fully agree that we shouldn't be beholden to the FHS structure.
Shawn.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bill Crawford Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:58 PM To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Re: few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop
On 27/03/2008, Shawn Starr sstarr@platform.com wrote:
This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries
(static-bin). We needed this back when live CDs didn't exist, or if you somehow foobared your GNU libc you had /sbin/sln (static link) to fix a system, now a days you pop in a CD, chroot to the saddened Linux system and repair it easily. You used /sbin as your emergency kit and superuser tools.
Gee, thanks for the history lesson.
Of course, if you can find me an example of dynamic linking from the time when "sbin" came into existence (other than on VMS) let me know ...
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