Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's questionable that they should be artificially hidden in the first
> place, but hey. =)
The purpose of /sbin is not to "hide" anything, but to avoid
cluttering users' command namespace with commands they can't usefully
ever use.
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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 12:35, Robert Millan wrote:
> do you mean that someday we eventualy won't need /sbin at all? if that's
> the case i don't mind working the problem around by adding /sbin to PATH
I think that's a nice long term ideal. As soon as you take the idea
that users are gods of their
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:04:41AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
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> I think I see two potential solutions to this:
>
> 1) /sbin should be added to every users path on i386-gnu systems. The
> concept of a binary that is completely unusable for regular users is
> almost unheard of for us. (The only
