On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> The last part of your sentence is the key. /sbin and /usr/sbin exist to
> keep tools out of ordinary users' PATH.
>
Which made sense when every machine was expected to have an
administrator to do the complicated stuff for you, but fedora doesn't
ship one.
Or maybe it existed to keep path search times down for users who didn't
need those extra programs there...
Of course, we now have 3123 programs in /usr/bin on my F8 system.
David