Admittedly, I am not the brightest color in the crayola box.

That being said,

I can make no sense of this.

Normally I would just ignore something like this, but it comes from a
place with a history of making dumb choices and using the market to
enforce them.


set RANT=ON

Why compromise a distribution for anyone who cannot follow standards and
good practices?

(Which may or may not include yourself).

It is my opinion you end up with Windows doing that.

Quote from below provided reference:

"Since generally all user sessions and services have both directories in
$PATH"

(referencing /bin and /sbin)

In what stupid world does this happen?

I am in adm group and sudoers file, it is not in my path.

This doesn't happen by accident.  Someone causes it to happen.

That person should learn to follow good practices.


Further, the author claims that there is no gain to keeping /bin and
/sbin separate.

Maybe there is no gain in the authors system, which from my point of
view, appears to be misconfigured,

but the author shows no evidence that it is true in a properly
configured system.

The author claims it causes confusion, whereas merging everything
together would alleviate confusion.

The author wants to make a major change (with an unknown or unspeculated
amount of grief),

with no evidence that it would benefit a properly configured system.

Apparently bigger piles are less confusing than rudimentarily sorted
smaller piles.

Apparently it is easier to rearrange a system than to make sure it is
properly configured.



Or is making Linux into Windows the point?

set RANT=off


Can someone kindly show me the error in my thinking?


Thanks,

Ken


Reference:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin