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

[Pascal Wittmann]

+1 from me, too.

On 10/02/2014 07:07 PM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> 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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