On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:10:11 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for > all users. > > The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it > removes things from tab completion), but I have also heard that having > those things in tab completion would be a good thing. > > Another reason I am bringing this up is this bug [1]. On standard OSx, > there is no reason to hard code the path to sysctl like I'm being asked > to do in the patch associated with this bug, because the sbin > directories are always in the path. In other words, it isn't worth the > effort to send this patch upstream, which means there will always be a > Gentoo-specific patch to dev-lang/go unless upstream finds another way > to do the test they are doing on OSx via sysctl. > > Any ideas?
+1. Just do it. I add /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH on all Gentoo setups for ages. Too many useful tools are there. Though, add them after /bin and /usr/sbin for non-priviledged users and before for root. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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