[Nix-dev] Moving binaries from sbin/ to bin/?

[Wout Mertens]

I'm all for it, +1.

Wout.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone mind if we (slowly) move binaries from $out/sbin to $out/bin?
>
> Arguments for doing it:
>
> 1) The sbin vs bin distinction is an historic relic from the past. It
> makes little sense on NixOS. (Even a normal (LSB-like) distro like
> ArchLinux has already made the sbin -> bin switch).
>
> 2) It's annoying to have this distinction when writing nix
> expressions, having to figure out which of the two directories is the
> correct one for *this* package.
>
> 3) I just found my second sbin/bin bug caused by sbin being treated as
> a second class citizen in nixpkgs. I noticed that our standard builder
> will not add packages' sbin/ directory to PATH. (The first issue was
> from a long time ago, when sbin wasn't added to PATH by the profile.sh
> script (maybe wrong name) when on a non-NixOS distro.)
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
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