I shouldn't jump into this emerging flame war, but I like having some separate directories for things.
When you just throw all the crap into one big directory you end up like the mess that Windows is with its horrible system32 directory. Basically anything that isn't exactly an "app" specific file gets put there and the directory grows until it consumes your disk partition. With several "specific" directories for specific things, you can do stuff like tar up a directory, mount a partition, and untar - giving your system soom to grow. I realize that with today's big disk boom this is less of a problem, but I just really like having some things on separate partitions. Not to mention having useless files in a PATH directory wastes time and cycles searching for the file you want to run. I think /sbin is a good idea because you could put stuff like "fdisk" in there and make it not readable by users. If they don't know it's there they won't try and run it, and on the off chance that your permissions aren't quite right... Hey with internet, anybody could possibly get hacked. /sbin is a "security" feature more than anything else. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
