From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639A01384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55B5A21C0C1; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4661A21C08A for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id tAPIVEfT030675 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:31:14 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id tAPIVEtf027495; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:31:14 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id tAPIVE8L027491; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:31:14 +0100 Message-ID: <22101.65138.716590.807534@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:31:14 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users In-Reply-To: <20151125181411.GA19143@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> References: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> <5655F183.70102@gentoo.org> <20151125181411.GA19143@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp+signed+dXcJWFP3aa9yj2I"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 1edb6081-d43a-46bc-8262-72d9f4ab13fa X-Archives-Hash: 9897987d41587a490a24d45bb4faec8e This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+dXcJWFP3aa9yj2I Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> 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 --pgp+signed+dXcJWFP3aa9yj2I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWVf5sAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJz2twIAJzpd+NJC6O9b7eOx0Y6ENcZ K286HSUlHX609Hyy0xmEVS8FsPbSUlDoRQKD4mcSQtxxWsOC8iYFC+ef9a0Dea6N Km2Ll6wcaO4FTMv4FHJHoPRrwiZBuJDAsyg6GwWVxd7mqu4RPmVFIkV9FAMjZo04 m/F2thUcic/2vFA1qf6qISdhTbjrkdc9K1Pzq/1S3ULLrfm/6eFwUJeXzl9rJJ97 xoGsPZ5KGGE+aTribDsnoliwfZhLeCSKbpWs+sZBT3MC+UZLZT7YqmFXeaZDfVKQ 0OuwAf45sFhMROJiDIQE0MaKeRLIAfdMGApQiGcZztZTVRzhjGWq1AXQiONBUJU= =8MPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+dXcJWFP3aa9yj2I--