Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: add global USE flag 'split-sbin'

[Joshua Kinard]

On 10/16/2019 14:19, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 07:17:09PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2019, William Hubbs wrote:
>>
>>> Back in the day, the s in /sbin and /usr/sbin meant static, not super
>>> user. All binaries in those directories were statically linked.
>>

[snip]

>
> Please read the links I posted before --specifically the comments
> from Rob.
>
> Also, there is this.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952
>
> Tl;dr the bin sbin separation is a historical separation that doesn't
> make sense any longer.

This is just your opinion.  Why does it not make sense?  Please back that
up.  Especially the "historical separation" bit.  Why is is historical?
Whom is the authority on that?  Is this strictly a Gentoo thing?  Is RedHat
doing this?  Is someone else?  Etc...

FWIW, my opinion is I //like// the separation of /sbin and /bin.  In fact,
I'm that old codger who //still// likes keeping /usr/bin and /usr/sbin
separate (yes, on separate partitions).  Maybe it's because I'm really poor
at organizing (and staying organized), so dumping everything into one spot
-- which is something I do at home WAY too much -- just strikes me as a bad
idea.  Binning stuff into different buckets offers SOME degree of
organization.  It also means 'ls -l /bin' is still somewhat readable on a
system with a full desktop installed.

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Joshua Kinard
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