On fredag 23. februar 2024 02:36:38 CET Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 20:14 +0000, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM Gary Buhrmaster > > > <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:54 PM Aoife Moloney <amolo...@redhat.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > One additional item to consider is to review > > > > the packager guidelines for use of /sbin > > > > (and /usr/sbin) in additional locations from > > > > those involved directly with installing binaries. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In particular, I am thinking of the sysusers > > > > examples where the use of /sbin/nologin > > > > should, perhaps, be changed to /usr/bin/nologin. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are almost certainly other places > > > > in the docs/guidelines. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The documentation updates are always > > > > the most annoying in my experience. > > > > > > > > > > > > We cannot change this without breaking backward compatibility. It'll > > > have to stay that way until RHEL 9 falls out of support. > > > > > > > > > > That is a good argument to not change it , why we need break backward > > compatibility ? > > > > > > > Nah. It just means we don't change any configuration or PATH stuff, > which is fine because the sbin -> bin symlink will cover it. > > Shouldn't sbin be removed from the path with this change?
The only reason normal users have sbin in the first place is because of the convenience of tab completion with sudo. When normal users got sbin, it was important that it was at the end of the variable or it would break consolehelper. I’m not sure if consolehelper is ever used anymore but its still part the repo. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
