On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 20:14 +0000, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM Gary Buhrmaster > > <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:54 PM Aoife Moloney <amolo...@redhat.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Wiki -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin > > > > > > > > > > One additional item to consider is to review > > > the packager guidelines for use of /sbin > > > (and /usr/sbin) in additional locations from > > > those involved directly with installing binaries. > > > > > > In particular, I am thinking of the sysusers > > > examples where the use of /sbin/nologin > > > should, perhaps, be changed to /usr/bin/nologin. > > > > > > There are almost certainly other places > > > in the docs/guidelines. > > > > > > The documentation updates are always > > > the most annoying in my experience. > > > > We cannot change this without breaking backward compatibility. It'll > > have to stay that way until RHEL 9 falls out of support. > > > That is a good argument to not change it , why we need break backward > compatibility ? >
Nah. It just means we don't change any configuration or PATH stuff, which is fine because the sbin -> bin symlink will cover it. > is not sbin for super users and bin for users ? > No. This is one of those many myths about the "Unix FHS". And it doesn't even matter much these days anyway, since most newer administrative tools don't install in sbin anyway. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
