On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:55:02PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > >> Eliminating ROOTPATH seems like a significant change. Was this > >> officially discussed somewhere that I missed? > > > >> I actually support the change, but other people should be given the > >> chance to complain about it on the record.
It has been a long time, but I believe I brought it up at some point in the past. I'll look for a link in a few and reply with it if I find it. > > It contradicts the FHS, which says that /sbin contains "root-only > > commands" and that "ordinary users should not have to place any of the > > sbin directories in their path." [1] > > That would be fine if we actually followed the recommendation > mentioned in the first half of that footnote. > > "Deciding what things go into "sbin" directories is simple: if a > normal (not a system administrator) user will ever run it directly, > then it must be placed in one of the "bin" directories." > > However, there are plenty of examples of commands that normal users > may run from sbin. Moving these commands often causes problems for > packages that either hard code absolute paths, or detect paths at > build time. I think it would be less disruptive to add sbin to PATH > than it would be to try and "fix" all the packages that install > commands in the wrong place. There are no reasons to remove the *sbin directories from PATH; I know of no other distros that do this. William
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