On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:57:41AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:34:33PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:30:03AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote: > > > > > New, little stuff: > > > > > > For the GNU annex: several utilities are required for boot or > > > restoration of GNU/Hurd, and so should be required in /bin: settrans, > > > showtrans, fsysopts, devprobe, others? > > > > I think devprobe isn't really required, I have never used it. The > > others are right. > > Alright. I find it handier than reading /dev/klog dumps, though.
Make it optional. > > We could also add parted for example. > > Parted should go into /sbin, right? > > Related: since normal users on a GNU/Hurd system are to be permitted > to create filesystems on their own files, the mkfs family belong in > /bin. FHS puts them in /sbin, since they are not normally to be used > by standard users. No, I'm not sure we need a /sbin at all in the GNU system. Most of the things can just be done by normal users. For the binaries left, I don't think we need another directory for that. Shall we annoy everybody a bit more and create yet another symlink? :-) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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