[gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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All,

I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
all users.

The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it
removes things from tab completion), but I have also heard that having
those things in tab completion would be a good thing.

Another reason I am bringing this up is this bug [1]. On standard OSx,
there is no reason to hard code the path to sysctl like I'm being asked
to do in the patch associated with this bug, because the sbin
directories are always  in the path. In other words, it isn't worth the
effort to send this patch upstream, which means there will always be a
Gentoo-specific patch to dev-lang/go unless upstream finds another way
to do the test they are doing on OSx via sysctl.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558368

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