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

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 21:42:53 CEST 2014


On 2 October 2014 19:45, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
[...]
> I would like to ask whether moving /sbin/ contents to /bin/ contents
> and creating a sbin → bin symlink is a good idea. Our initrd already
> does this. For some packages many third-party tools expect them in some
> directory like $PREFIX/sbin and with move+symlink we can get benefits
> now and pay the price case-by-case. Maybe we'll even keep the symlink
> for a long time.

I agree.


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