Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH
> Julian Stoev wrote:
>
> > Look, probably your users *need* this. Other systems don't need it
> > probably. Imagine a university department working in biology or
> > even physics. Who needs traceroute there? :) Nobody cares about
> > the network. They want their job done and don't even know about
> > traceroute,... The majority of the users in such places don't use
> > more that 5-6 UNIX commands if they use it at all for something not
> > related to e-mail.
joeyh@debian.org (Joey Hess) added:
> So are you arguing that /usr/bin should contain just those 5
> commands? What you are saying makes very little sense.
No. Julian is saying that the "needs" of a user are highly subjective.
The activities done by people in this group tends to be highly skewed
towards administrative tasks, which is understandable. If you look at
the big picture, however, and consider the rest of the world (i.e.,
users other than administrative types such as ourselves), you'll find
that nobody really cares about traceroute.
Brian
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