On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 06:56:50PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:13:21AM -0400, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > > I'm new on this list, but it occurred to me that the 'mtr' (Matt's > > Traceroute) package installs its binary into /usr/bin > > > > So then, why the inconsistency between mtr and traceroute, if their purpose > > is the same? > > well it's basicly because of a point of view. > > traceroute is considered as admin tool and mrt as user tool (for me they > are both user tools) From what I gather, the situation is more like "If we move it we'll break compatibility with a zillion scripts and make everybody hate us". That is, and should be, a legitimate concern. Since nobody can really justify making the maintainer do a bunch of extra work to create a smooth transition out of /usr/sbin, and nobody can come up with a compelling reason to move it, it's not likely to move. For the sake of consistancy, the iputils-tracepath package, which installs an IPv6 version of traceroute (traceroute6) puts its traceroute binary in /usr/sbin as well. I don't see too much of a problem with it. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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