Re: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-22

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 02:04 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 07:11 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 23.10.2008 21:53, Brian Pepple wrote: > > > === Features === > > > * FESCo rejected a proposal to revert the Sbin Sanity(1) feature. > > > * For: kick_ > > > * Against: dwmw2, j-rod, bpepple, notting, dgilmore, nirik > > > * Abstain: jwb > > > 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity > > > > I think FESCo is doing a big mistake here. +1 > > So FWIW, I totally agree with what Ville said in > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg02180.html > > If you're writing scripts and not explicitly calling out the binary > location, then it's not surprising if your scripts break later. I know > it's nice to always assume a particular PATH, but it's not good practice > any more than including or not including sbin in the PATH to begin with. > And people using tab-completion can get used to the new binary names. > > FWIW, I think including sbin in the path is only about *10 years too > late*, everyone else is already laughing that Fedora didn't do this, so > really it doesn't need to wait for yet another 1.5 years to get done :)

I disagree. Fedora not having gone this naive road is one detail why users are using Fedora.