+1 from me, too. On 10/02/2014 07:07 PM, Wout Mertens wrote: > I'm all for it, +1. > > Wout. > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.fors...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone mind if we (slowly) move binaries from $out/sbin to $out/bin? >> >> Arguments for doing it: >> >> 1) The sbin vs bin distinction is an historic relic from the past. It >> makes little sense on NixOS. (Even a normal (LSB-like) distro like >> ArchLinux has already made the sbin -> bin switch). >> >> 2) It's annoying to have this distinction when writing nix >> expressions, having to figure out which of the two directories is the >> correct one for *this* package. >> >> 3) I just found my second sbin/bin bug caused by sbin being treated as >> a second class citizen in nixpkgs. I noticed that our standard builder >> will not add packages' sbin/ directory to PATH. (The first issue was >> from a long time ago, when sbin wasn't added to PATH by the profile.sh >> script (maybe wrong name) when on a non-NixOS distro.) >> >> Best regards, >> Bjørn Forsman >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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