833908 – [Future EAPI] Discontinuation of /sbin, /usr/sbin

Bug 833908 - [Future EAPI] Discontinuation of /sbin, /usr/sbin

Summary: [Future EAPI] Discontinuation of /sbin, /usr/sbin

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Package Manager Specification

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Whiteboard:	distant-future-eapi
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Reported:	2022-02-22 21:51 UTC by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Modified:	2022-02-23 09:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2022-02-22 21:51:51 UTC

Since original reasons for existence of /sbin, /usr/sbin are long gone, a future EAPI can include changes towards not installing files into /sbin, /usr/sbin.

Specifically the following things are in scope of PMS:

1. econf() should pass --sbindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' to configure.

2. dosbin and newsbin should be banned.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2022-02-23 09:36:11 UTC

Not going to happen anytime soon.

Feel free to reopen once the FHS doesn't mention /sbin and /usr/sbin any more:
https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s16.html