[PATCH] vi should be in /usr/bin and not in /bin

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 6 17:11:37 UTC 2007


On Thursday 06 September 2007 17:49, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:21 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi Natanael,
> > 
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 18:33, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > While porting openbsd's sendbug I realized that busybox vi is in /bin
> > > and not in /usr/bin where I would expect an application like vi.
> ...
> > Let me think about it till tomorrow.
> 
> Do you know what you want? (I wonder if i should my revert my patch for
> my local build)

I feel that software generally shouldn't depend on where binaries are,
and should just use PATH.

Users (admins) should have freedom to decide what does to /bin,
and what to /usr/bin.

(btw I don't really understand why busybox has --install option,
 I do it with shell script, but I won't remove --install)
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vda



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