From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151125181411.GA19143@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 369 bytes --]
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
> This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've
> seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.
Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc
for such binaries. :)
(Some remnants of this can still be seen today, like /etc/rmt
installed by app-arch/tar.)
Ulrich
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 490 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-25 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-25 17:10 [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users William Hubbs
2015-11-25 17:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-11-25 17:36 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2015-11-25 18:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-25 18:17 ` Michał Górny
2015-11-25 19:18 ` Daniel Campbell
2015-11-25 19:23 ` Michał Górny
2015-11-25 20:16 ` Mike Gilbert
2015-11-25 20:15 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2015-11-26 15:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2015-11-26 15:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-11-25 18:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2015-11-25 18:31 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2015-11-25 18:38 ` William Hubbs
2015-11-25 18:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-25 19:47 ` William Hubbs
2015-11-25 20:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-25 21:39 ` William Hubbs
2015-11-25 20:12 ` splite-gentoo
2015-11-25 18:58 ` Mike Gilbert
2015-11-25 20:42 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-11-26 16:37 ` Peter Stuge
2015-11-25 19:17 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2015-11-25 21:39 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-11-26 3:58 ` Mike Gilbert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de \
--to=ulm@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox