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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:52:10
Message-Id: 22102.843.697962.119455@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users by William Hubbs
1 >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
2
3 > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
4 > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
5 > be able to come up without libraries.
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7 Source/reference for this?
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9 > As mgorny was talking about earlier, a good chunk of what is in sbin
10 > *can* be run by normal users.
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12 Then it shouldn't be in sbin, in the first place. That's a separate
13 discussion though.
14
15 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users splite-gentoo@××××××××××××××××.edu