On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:26:52PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:24:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > > On the GNU system it will be usual for normal users to create > > > and maintain their own filesystems, typicaly on removable media. > > > > > > Hence they need mkfs, fsck and other filesystem-related utilities > > > available in the /bin directory instead of /sbin. > > > > It might be desirable to have these utilities available in both /bin > > and /sbin, so programs that hard-code pathnames don't break. Symlinks > > would suffice, right? > <snip> > In my opinion setting symlinks is not a good idea because it > prevents us from spotting buggy scripts and fixing them.
Point taken. > I guess the debian-devel people wouldn't like to set symlinks > either. Probably they won't, but there may also be a desire to have files available in the same places in Debian's distributions. Also, unfortunately, at the moment, the body of FHS requires mkfs, fsck, et al. in /sbin, if these files exist on a system (section 3.14.2), so Debian GNU/Hurd may need to provide these files here. -- Richard
