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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 18:31:27
Message-Id: 22101.65138.716590.807534@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 > This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've
4 > seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.
5
6 Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc
7 for such binaries. :)
8
9 (Some remnants of this can still be seen today, like /etc/rmt
10 installed by app-arch/tar.)
11
12 Ulrich

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