On 15-Aug-00, 14:35 (CDT), paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is it considered "difficult" for individual users adding /sbin and > /usr/sbin to their path if they wish to?
Because stating that it is difficult is seen as an valid argument by those who wish sbin would go away. The fact that it is obviously trivial is not valid. > Is there some deeper principal of Unix or Linux philosophy being > discussed here? No. > Is there something to be gained that is somehow greater than can be > achieved by changing one's own path? No. > Is there something I am missing about this debate? There are people who think that the way *they* want things set up is de-facto the way everybody want things set up. All paths, program options and defaults should be pre-configured to be exactly what they want them. Modifying configuration files, adding symlinks, or whatever is too much effort, but requiring package maintainers to greatly complicate their (the maintainers) work to accomodate every possible use of a given package is no big deal. Of course, the fact that the "do it my way" people don't agree about *what* the default configurations should be doesn't seem to clue them in... Steve, tired of these types of arguments.
