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Subject:    Re: F40 Change Proposal: F40 Change Proposal: Unify /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (System-Wide)
From:       Neal Gompa <ngompa13 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2024-02-23 1:36:38
Message-ID: CAEg-Je_DFh0SNvTW-b_2DS87pDgepRKpVkK9O9OinGq7883Qww () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@serjux.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 20:14 +0000, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM Gary Buhrmaster
> > <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:54 PM Aoife Moloney <amoloney@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin
> > > >
> > >
> > > One additional item to consider is to review
> > > the packager guidelines for use of /sbin
> > > (and /usr/sbin) in additional locations from
> > > those involved directly with installing binaries.
> > >
> > > In particular, I am thinking of the sysusers
> > > examples where the use of /sbin/nologin
> > > should, perhaps, be changed to /usr/bin/nologin.
> > >
> > > There are almost certainly other places
> > > in the docs/guidelines.
> > >
> > > The documentation updates are always
> > > the most annoying in my experience.
> >
> > We cannot change this without breaking backward compatibility. It'll
> > have to stay that way until RHEL 9 falls out of support.
>
>
> That is a good argument to not change it , why we need break backward
> compatibility ?
>

Nah. It just means we don't change any configuration or PATH stuff,
which is fine because the sbin -> bin symlink will cover it.

> is not sbin for super users and bin for users ?
>

No. This is one of those many myths about the "Unix FHS". And it
doesn't even matter much these days anyway, since most newer
administrative tools don't install in sbin anyway.




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