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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>

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>>>>> 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

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  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

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