On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 01:39:35PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sunday 2016-12-25 12:34, Robert Schweikert wrote:
2.) Links will have to remain more or less indefinitely. If an executable moves from /{s,}bin to /usr/{s,}bin a link in /{s,}bin must remain for backwards compatibility in order to not break existing code outside of the distribution that may expect executables in /{s,}bin
That is not quite correct - have a look at Fedora. If /sbin itself is a symlink, then /sbin/PROG does not need to be a link.
Fedora is a mess. If you look at their packages you'll see that there are still many of them that have stuff in /bin and rely on rpm following /bin to /usr/bin when doing the install. And also keep in mind that you'll need to add lots of "Provides: /bin/foo" statements so that 3rd party stuff is still installable. I don't see why we should have all the pain that a /bin and /sbin links gives us with no gain at all. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF Jeff Hawn, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org