>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> ifconfig is a required file for /sbin according the the FHS
Anthony> section 3.10 as distributed in the debian-policy package.
I think that some people are espousing non-compliance with the
standards. Is that what we want to do?
Steve> OK, how about moving everything into /bin except what FHS
Steve> specifically says should be in /sbin? Section 3.10[0]
Steve> identifies the following specifically to be located in /sbin:
Sounds like a cop out. We are acknowledging that we can no
longer come to a consensus on this, and we are punting on
this. Actually, it may be closer to saying we really don't like sbin,
and we move everything out of there, except that we also want to be
FHS compliant, and let just tose programs stay in.
I think we should either
a) categorize the programs, by extending the reasoning of the FHS,
and I have not yet lost hope of our ability to reach a rough
consensus,
b) decide that the sbin idea is silly, and that's that (we can
symlink /sbin to /bin)
I think we may be truthfully accused of losing touch with the
generic user out there. Most of the discusion here (and, I confess,
my knee jerk reactions), have dealt with the issue with opinions on
what works for us -- even though developers are rarely a decent
sampling of the unwashed masses. My experience has been that most
users, even most linux users, are not what the industry terms ``power
users'' (most of these folks just call the sys admin when things go
wrong). The defaults should be designed around them, not us, since
power users shall always tweak the system defaults anyway.
manoj
stepping off the soap box
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