Re: Intent To Split: netbase
>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> Of course. The obvious answer is that programs that have
Branden> some utility to unprivileged users should go in /bin (or
Branden> /usr/bin).
The problem with that is that it is all so very subjective,
and it all depends on the ``unprivileged user''. Under this tacit
policy, there is unlikely to be a solution that satisfies
anyone. Indeed, a more workable criteria may be to put things in sbin
that _require_ priviledges (things like mount, fsck, etc), and say
that sbin contains programs that are useless to the unpriviledged
user.
I think that would be way less controversial.
manoj
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