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| From: | William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge | ||
| Date: | Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:20:40 | ||
| Message-Id: | 5707be2c.0af3ca0a.86e6c.ffffef69@mx.google.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge by "M. J. Everitt" |
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| 1 | On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 03:44:06AM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
| 2 | > 3) I still believe there is merit in distinguishing between binaries |
| 3 | > that can/should be run as root, and those that can/should not. Those |
| 4 | > that run as root 100% of the time, or use VMs, don't really 'use' linux |
| 5 | > in the original sense of the OS .. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Here is more info about the split and why it exists. It turns out it hs |
| 8 | nothing to do with system admininistration or permissions. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html |
| 11 | http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split/ |
| 12 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 |
| 13 | |
| 14 | In short, this is all a historical artifact with justifications thought |
| 15 | up after the fact. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | William |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge | "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org> |
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