moving /bin/ip to /sbin/ip?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 05:01, Paul Fox wrote:
> >  > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> >  > > It would be a lot easier for me to have the ip application in the
> >  > > same place as the original iproute2. In fact it makes things alot
> >  > > more easy to have the busybox applications in the same place as the
> >  > > original apps. (not first time i meet this kind of problems)
> >  >
> >  > $PATH?
> >
> > no, his problem is that other apps refer to ip via its full path.
> > $PATH isn't always the answer.
>
> Which is kind of negates the reason why we have PATH in the first place.
>
> "Other apps" should be fixed to not use full paths.

generally yes ... however, i dont know of any distro who puts `ip` in /bin and 
considering its purpose in life (configuring the interfaces), putting it 
in /sbin makes sense to me
-mike
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