Adding to this list the fact that: -- there's not a lot of things in sbin anyway
-- sbin contains binaries usefull for normal users (think "ip a s" or "fdisk -l") -- tools evolve, gain new features, not all of them require high capabilities Just nuke the s(tupid)bin On 9 March 2015 at 22:40, Wulf C. Krueger <philant...@exherbo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It's historical nonsense and we should get rid of it: > > - - bin & sbin in Exherbo are in a totally inconsistent messy state. > > - - We've no criteria to put things in either directory. We all do it > differently. > > - - We shouldn't keep pointless crap that's inconsistent. > > - - Making sbin a symlink doesn't really cost us anything but makes > things finally consistent. > > - - Unsplitting it also gains cross-distro compatibility. With the > merge+symlink, it doesn't matter where a script thinks the tool should be. > > - - The split doesn't make any sense at all anymore. > > - - The split is ugly aestetics and those must be eradicated. > > > For some background: > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html > > > And we should do it *now* while we're breaking everything with cross > anyway in order to avoid breaking things twice. > > - -- > Best regards, Wulf "who's never going to rely on IRC decisions > anymore" Krueger > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > iEYEARECAAYFAlT+E1IACgkQnuVXRcSi+5pl8QCdGKZw3BD3Jgq4O7RFRlk9Afni > cc0AmwWptDfh5tiDPNaQXMjvZzwT2RHB > =Uymm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > Exherbo-dev@lists.exherbo.org > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list Exherbo-dev@lists.exherbo.org http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
