On 2011-10-11, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > I especially dislike moving /sbin/ and /usr/sbin/ to /usr/bin/. > That's namespace pollution, you don't want to have executables you can't run > due to them being root-only in your $PATH.
You could skip executables that you cannot run in tab completion and actual lookups. And indeed that's what the shells do. But it turns out that everything in /sbin is actually executable for !root. And then you have tools like ifconfig in /sbin or exigrep and visudo in /usr/sbin, which are useful outside of the root context. So I actually put */sbin into my PATH anyway. (Yes, some of them might be bugs. Some of them might not be easily movable without compatibility symlinks. But my original argument of them being actually executable still stands, I think.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj9ae59.5ne.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
