Re: On merging bin and sbin

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 28/02/24 12:25, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> >  This can be good, but it can also be seen as a pollution of
> > your shell completion. I note that Fedora seems to have added /sbin to
> > the user $PATH by default, which is not what Debian has done. I do not
> > think we have consensus on this and would raise an objection of my own.
>
> /sbin not in PATH by default makes many more veteran users unhappy. 

Also non veteran users, given that certain commands in /sbin just work 
fine when run as non-root (or actually should _not_ be run as root 
because they trust their input). For example:

* fatlabel
* findfs
* fsck.*
* isosize
* mkfs.*
* route
* tarcat

But aside from the $PATH question, cacin work on ensuring that there are 
no conflicts between /sbin and /bin is worth pursuing as these conflicts 
are just bugs waiting to happen.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci