[arch-dev-public] [RFC] Cleaning up /sbin, /bin and /lib

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 04/11/11 22:08, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>
>> core/bash

/bin/bashbug ?

>> core/bzip2
>> core/coreuils
>> core/dash

A symlink would probably do?

>> core/ed
>> core/filesystem
>> core/gawk
>> core/grep
>> core/grub

Not needed during boot.

>> core/gzip
>> core/inetutils
>> core/iputils
>> core/kbd
>> core/keyutils
>> core/less
>> core/mkinitcpio

Not needed during boot.

>> core/module-init-tools
>> core/ncurses
>> core/net-tools
>> core/procps
>> core/sed
>> core/shadow
>> core/sysvinit
>> core/tar
>> core/util-linux
>
> Almost all these packages have their binaries in /bin and /sbin covered by the FHS.

Most, but not all. Also, FHS specifically allows symlinks to the real
binaries, so referring to the FHS is not really an argument either
way.

There are some examples of binaries that really should not be there
though. I added some comments above, but the maintainers would
probably know better.

-t