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Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)
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Jeroen Dekkers |
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Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles) |
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Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:51:23 +0100 |
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:57:41AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:34:33PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:30:03AM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote:
> >
> > > New, little stuff:
> > >
> > > For the GNU annex: several utilities are required for boot or
> > > restoration of GNU/Hurd, and so should be required in /bin: settrans,
> > > showtrans, fsysopts, devprobe, others?
> >
> > I think devprobe isn't really required, I have never used it. The
> > others are right.
>
> Alright. I find it handier than reading /dev/klog dumps, though.
Make it optional.
> > We could also add parted for example.
>
> Parted should go into /sbin, right?
>
> Related: since normal users on a GNU/Hurd system are to be permitted
> to create filesystems on their own files, the mkfs family belong in
> /bin. FHS puts them in /sbin, since they are not normally to be used
> by standard users.
No, I'm not sure we need a /sbin at all in the GNU system. Most of the
things can just be done by normal users. For the binaries left, I
don't think we need another directory for that. Shall we annoy
everybody a bit more and create yet another symlink? :-)
Jeroen Dekkers
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- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), (continued)
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/17
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/17
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/17
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/17
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles),
Jeroen Dekkers <=
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Ian Duggan, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Richard Kreuter, 2002/03/18
- Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles), Jeroen Dekkers, 2002/03/18