Re: of bash and ...sbin/
Steve Greenland (stevegr@debian.org) wrote:
> On 22-Mar-00, 15:59 (CST), Jacob Kuntz <jake@megabite.net> wrote:
> > i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
> > normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries
> > would break a lot of scripts. i don't think appending to the default path
> > would break anything. anyone have a problem with that?
>
> We discussed (and argued and flamed and ...) that to death. The
> objection is mostly due to potential confusion (there are a lot more
> potential targets for command completion, and most of them are *not*
> what the user is looking for) and inertia, and the expectation that a
> user who finds value in use of traceroute or ifconfig or whatever is
> also a user who is capable of modifying their path.
finnally! a valid argument! i submit.
>
> sg
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