Re: [rfkill PATCH] default install to $(PREFIX)/sbin

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:02:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:00 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > > The rfkill utility isn't generally useful to normal users, so move it to
> > > > /sbin with other system management executables.
> > > 
> > > Seems to me that it's kinda useful, it should be possible for most users
> > > to use the event and query interface if the /dev/rfkill permissions are
> > > set up correctly.
> > 
> > Sure, but (just like ip, ifconfig, or iwconfig) nothing stops people
> > from using them in /sbin or /usr/sbin.  It is just a convention for
> > tools that are more for system management than for day-to-day use.
> > 
> > Hopefully most people will stick with NM or whatever and may stay
> > completely unaware of the rfkill utility. :-)
> 
> So are you going to send an iw patch too? :-)

As you wish...on it's way!

> FWIW I like tools in bin/ since the default paths on most systems for
> users don't include sbin/.

FWIW, Fedora has been including it for normal users for a few
releases now.

I agree that it /bin vs /sbin is not strictly necessary, but it is
standard practice.  I guess it does enable some users to either drop
those tools completely from their path or to order their path to
select alternate versions of tools for whatever reason.  Whatever...

I think Fedora will move iw and rfkill to /sbin in any case.
This enables them to be used before /usr is mounted and makes sure
root has them early in his path.  The posted patches are not strictly
necessary for that, but they slightly simplify the install process.
Plus, I think they are more compliant with standard practices.

John
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