Comment # 6 on bug 1029961 from Ludwig Nussel

Thanks for following up on this Daniel! We really need to clean up the mess we
got into.

I am not so sure that we went the right way though. The compat symlinks that
were put in packages could be self-defeating. At some point in time /bin needs
to be switched to a symlink to /usr/bin. Rpm will follow that link so packages
installing files in /bin will continue to work just fine. However, how does rpm
behave when packages contain both links in /bin as well as binaries in
/usr/bin? What would rpm -V say?

So I was thinking whether a better way would be to not actually package compat
symlinks but rather create them with some helper in %post as long as /bin is
not a symlink itself yet. We'd need a way to tag files that are meant to have a
compat symlink then.