Re: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:42:20AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > traceroute must stay in /usr/sbin because moving it will break local
> > scripts that depend on it being exactly where it has been for the
> > last 5+ years.
>
> That's the sorriest excuse for, well, an excuse I've ever seen.
in other words, you think that avoiding arbitrary and unneccesary
breakage that serves no useful purpose is a "sorry excuse", that it's
OK for stuff that used to work perfectly suddenly stops working after
an upgrade - even when no new features have been provided, no actual
bugs have been fixed...the only change is that it suits *your* aesthetic
sensibilities better.
THAT is a sorry excuse for reasoning.
> ever since I used Debian, I've been wondering why traceroute is in
> /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin. [...]
if it bothers you, then make a symlink. or add /usr/sbin to your path.
craig
ps: please check the archives before re-iterating the same tired
arguments. we've seen this flamewar too many times before. it's boring
and tedious. find something useful or interesting to do with your time.
--
craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Fabricati Diem, PVNC.
-- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
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