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Re: mkfs and fsck in /sbin



Hi,

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:32:36PM +1100, Chris Gibson wrote:

> I would raise a third possibility for discussion:
> 3) that is moving all executables from /sbin to /bin then making /sbin 
> a symlink of /bin.  This would prevent the breaking of all the scripts 
> which refer to /sbin/AppName directly, allow all users access to all 
> normally administration only applications (presuming this is desirable) 
> and would require no special Hurd specific modifications by the package 
> maintainers.  It also presents a similar approach to that of symlinking 
> /usr to /
> 
> I would put forward some arguments for maintaining the current location 
> and visibility of the /sbin executables:
> a) Compatibility between UNIXs:  Applications (scripts or binary 
> executables) written under Hurd which rely on applications being in the 
> PATH where on other UNIXs they are not, would not run directly on the 
> other UNIXs, making Hurd a bad development platform.
> b) If Hurd is used as a learning tool then the more conformance to the 
> detail of FHS the better.

I completely agree to your suggestion and all your points.

Cheers,


Emile.

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