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From: Oliver Schad <oliver.schad@automatic-server.com>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: s6 usability
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:18:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191224011803.04838458@dickeberta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71d8d053-e298-6c6b-99bd-dbcc3885cd01@NTLWorld.COM>

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:15:11 +0000
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
wrote:

> Oliver Schad:
> 
> > A booting tools should be in /bin - full stop!
> >  
> 
> That is historically untrue.  The real world has not actually worked
> in the way that some people think.

Sorry, this is a historical explanation of some things - is this a
history course here?

That is *not* what you would expect today. Scripts
for system initialization (a special case) should find all tools
in /bin, because it's in always in the path (always today).

To put tools for a lot of scripts somewhere(!) would mean, that all
scripts have a method to find these tools or would mean to add more
directories to PATH.

Because the maintainer of these scripts are completely distributed
(it's not one small team, which writes boot/start scripts), it's crazy
to do something else than put everything in /bin.

If you would say, that this is not true, then we can discuss where we
should place cp, mv, ls - maybe in /usr/lib/gnu/? Really?

Important scripting tools should always be in /bin or /usr/bin - /bin
for boot, /usr/bin for later stages is ok.

Best Regards
Oli

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-24  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-25 21:43 runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7 J. Lewis Muir
2019-11-27 20:33 ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-11-28  7:59   ` Ben Franksen
     [not found]   ` <ecdf4d8f-93f6-3f9f-b84c-351fa91c7f02@uni-bremen.de>
2019-11-28 19:04     ` Laurent Bercot
2019-11-28 20:39       ` Steve Litt
2019-11-28 22:17         ` runit or s6 (was: runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7) Laurent Bercot
2019-11-29 14:09       ` runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7 Jan Braun
2019-11-29 21:46         ` Dewayne Geraghty
2019-11-30  1:22           ` Colin Booth
2019-11-30  0:21         ` Colin Booth
2019-11-30  3:14           ` Steve Litt
2019-11-30 13:32           ` Jeff
2019-11-30 13:46             ` Jeff
2019-11-30 10:15         ` s6 usability (was: runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7) Laurent Bercot
2019-11-30 14:32           ` Jeff
2019-11-30 18:58             ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-02 12:07               ` Jeff
2019-12-02 22:20                 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-02  2:47           ` Steve Litt
2019-12-02  3:37             ` s6 usability Dewayne Geraghty
2019-12-02 10:24               ` fungal-net
2019-12-02 21:32             ` s6 usability (was: runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7) Laurent Bercot
2019-12-02 23:17               ` s6 usability Samuel Holland
2019-12-03 22:10                 ` Steve Litt
2019-12-21 11:49                   ` Jan Braun
2019-12-04 12:15                 ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-12-04 21:02                 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-04  1:30             ` s6 usability (was: runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7) Casper Ti. Vector
2019-12-21  9:26           ` s6 usability Jan Braun
2019-12-21 18:36             ` Guillermo
2019-12-21 21:19             ` Colin Booth
2019-12-22  1:05               ` Jan Braun
2019-12-22  8:30                 ` Colin Booth
2019-12-21 23:46             ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-22  5:53               ` Jan Braun
2019-12-22 20:33               ` Steve Litt
2019-12-22 23:20                 ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-23  1:28                   ` Oliver Schad
2019-12-23  9:14                     ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-23 10:15                     ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-12-24  0:18                       ` Oliver Schad [this message]
2019-12-23  1:57                   ` Steve Litt
2019-12-23  9:00                     ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-22 23:47                 ` Dewayne Geraghty
2019-12-04 11:36         ` runit patches to fix compiler warnings on RHEL 7 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-12-04 16:40           ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-12-04 20:48             ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-04 21:32               ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-12-04 21:06             ` Steve Litt
2019-12-04 21:50               ` Laurent Bercot
     [not found]                 ` <20191205132736.7f501460@puter>
2019-12-08 19:10                   ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-02 17:57       ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-12-02 21:06         ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-12-02 22:22           ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-02 21:58         ` Laurent Bercot
2019-12-03 10:57           ` Benjamin Franksen
2019-12-04 10:43       ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
2019-12-02 17:13     ` J. Lewis Muir
2019-12-04 11:13       ` Jonathan de Boyne Pollard

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