On 2024-02-28 12:25:13 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> I totally agree: we should aim at moving all service binaries such as
> daemons which are not directly invoked by users out of PATH to
> /usr/lib{,exec} or similar to make shell completion more helpful.
I disagree. The goal should not be to make shel
On 28/02/24 19:08, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote:
From: Gioele Barabucci
This is a quick'n'dirty list of binaries present in both /bin and /sbin:
arping bin net/iputils-arping sbin net/arping (+ Conflicts:)
Are any of these (like ar
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote:
> Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for
> some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same
> name)?
arping is definitely not a duplicate, iputils-arping and arping are
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:47:48AM -0600, r...@neoquasar.org wrote:
> > From: Gioele Barabucci
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 08:22
> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: On merging bin and sbin
> >
> > On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wr
: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: On merging bin and sbin
On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wrote:
> Last thing: The idea of detecting cases where multiple binaries have the
> same name is a verey good one. It should also be possible to automate this
> effort in a number of ways. I would
On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wrote:
Last thing: The idea of detecting cases where multiple binaries have the same name is a
verey good one. It should also be possible to automate this effort in a number of ways.
I would be happy to help with this, if it's just a matter of someone putting in the
A few thigns I have seen in this thread:
Fedora/Arch/Whomever: I don't think it matters who thought of what first.
Sometimes, it's okay to be different. I have moved all of my systems away from
Slackware and Fedora/RedHat/etc. TO Debian because I think Debian does it
better. Please do not t
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 objectio
On Feb 28, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Please allow me to push back on this one as well by raising a few
> concerns.
Also, I think that the benefits from doing this are tiny, and just
adding /usr/sbin/ to the $PATH would solve almost everything.
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Hi Helmut,
On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 07:41 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I see that you are working on merging /bin and /sbin, for instance
> via
> brltty bug #1064785. Again Fedora is pioneering this matter and their
> documentation is at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Uni
Hi cacin,
I see that you are working on merging /bin and /sbin, for instance via
brltty bug #1064785. Again Fedora is pioneering this matter and their
documentation is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin.
Please allow me to push back on this one as well by raising a few
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