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On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:10:11 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for |
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> all users. |
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> The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it |
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> removes things from tab completion), but I have also heard that having |
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> those things in tab completion would be a good thing. |
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> Another reason I am bringing this up is this bug [1]. On standard OSx, |
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> there is no reason to hard code the path to sysctl like I'm being asked |
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> to do in the patch associated with this bug, because the sbin |
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> directories are always in the path. In other words, it isn't worth the |
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> effort to send this patch upstream, which means there will always be a |
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> Gentoo-specific patch to dev-lang/go unless upstream finds another way |
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> to do the test they are doing on OSx via sysctl. |
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> Any ideas? |
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+1. Just do it. |
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I add /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH on all Gentoo setups for ages. |
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Too many useful tools are there. Though, add them after /bin |
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and /usr/sbin for non-priviledged users and before for root. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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