[arch-dev-public] Merging the "bin" directories

[Rémy Oudompheng]

On 2013/5/12 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 12/05/13 18:58, Andreas Radke wrote:
>> Am Sun, 12 May 2013 02:56:50 -0300
>> schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
>>
>>> Looks like we are going "one step" more compared to Fedora right?
>>>
>>> /bin /sbin /usr/sbin -> /usr/bin (Arch Linux)
>>> /bin -> /usr/bin AND /sbin -> /usr/sbin (Fedora)
>>>
>>> This looks nice :)
>>>
>>
>> Is it safe to move a daemon to /usr/bin where any user can access its
>> binary (e.g. my cups pkg)?
>>
>
> Sure...  They were not magically hidden when in /usr/sbin.
>

It is even a pain that very useful binaries like ip, ifconfig, lsof
are in /sbin or /usr/sbin which is often not in user's PATH.

Rémy.