On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros uttered: > There are a number of binaries which should go into /bin instead of /sbin or > /usr/sbin -- the full argument is at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00878.html > ARGHHH! We've been through this, _ad nausem_. And because the Maintainer doesn't want to change it, someone thought "Well, bugger me, I'll force it with Policy." Not Smart.[tm]
> I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_ > to > /usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful > as > ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be mounted via NFS through > a gateway -- exactly what we want to diagnose. Same for the ipv6 versions of > ping and traceroute. > No, traceroute should be in /usr/bin. Read the FHS descriptions for /bin, and /usr/bin. traceroute fits the latter. > For a counter-argument, look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00945.html > (which says only traceroute belongs to bin and not other tools like ifconfig). > *sigh* Been there, done that. > -- Steve Synthetic Transforming Entity Viable for Exploration and Nocturnal Killing
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