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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Adrian Sevcenco <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> On 04/09/12 23:10, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:44:31PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It's RH's right as a distribution to decide to make us choose between
>> >> vi and nm-connection-editor
>> >
>> > Well, within limits. Otherwise you have user rebelions, etc. I guess
>> > they use Fedora as a thermometer.
>> >
>> >> in the same way that it decided to drop
>> >> sysvinit for upstart in v6 and will almost certainly drop upstart for
>> >> systemd in v7. I've never used any of the system-config-* tools ...
>> >
>> > Another boring shuffle, yawn. I already start all important daemons and
>> > do all
>> > non-trivial network configuration from /etc/rc.local. (Obviously
>> > only for stuff one does not need at boot time).
>> >
>> > Would be fun to see them try to deprecate vi and rc.local.
>> Given that rc.local does NOT work in F16, i think everyone will have a
>> lot of fun...
>
> Bring popcorn. Fedora 17 is getting rid of /bin and /sbin, replacing the
> directories with symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

And don't be surprised if F18 merges "/usr/bin" and "/usr/sbin".

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