On Friday 2012-08-10 03:06, Russ Allbery wrote: > >I should start another discussion here on the FHS list about the bin >vs. sbin distinction as well, and whether folks feel like moving >everything from sbin to bin and symlinking sbin to bin would comply with >the FHS.
Absolutely against it. bin is already littered with umpteenth many programs, slowing down lookups, both of the technical kind (there is always going to be an n of some kind in the O notation), and the more so of the practical kind. Can you say you use all the 110 texlive commands on a daily basis? Hardly. But they're all symlinked from /usr/lib/texmf/bin into /usr/bin on at least one distro. This diminishes the value of shell completion. If we spam bin with _even more_ programs, we'll all end up in... a quite unfavorable position. REMEMBER: You can always _add_ directories to $PATH to search in, but if everything is in one place, you cannot take it away. _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
