hardcoding sbin

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 08:04:29 PST 2007


On 3/7/07, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/3/7, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> > In the tools/Makefile.am we have:
> >
> > if HAVE_UMOUNT_HAL
> > slashsbindir = /sbin
> > slashsbin_PROGRAMS = umount.hal
>
> Why not simply install it into /usr/sbin? As it needs hal anyways
> (which requires /usr being mounted), I don't see the point of
> installing it into /sbin.

It has to go to /sbin because that's where umount expects to find it.

--
Dan


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