On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:16:27AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:06:47PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:47:03PM +0100, you wrote:
Not on Debian GNU/Hurd, we decided it's not worth the trouble and
recommend users do not have a symlink (and only really support a real
/usr these days). Some installation methods might still yield a /usr
symlink in some cases, though; some ask the user about it.
Ok. In that case I suppose that moving kill to /bin on hurd and then
adding a symlink in /usr/bin would be the best approach?
Why is a symlink needed, for compatibility? I don't think that matters
much.
In case anyone has hard coded the path for kill in their scripts.
I guess that also means that I don't have to special case /usr/bin/touch
anymore? (Currently that's a symlink to /bin/touch for everybody except
hurd.)
Hrm, if it does not bother you too much, maybe it would be better to
keep that around for now; even if more and more new installations have a
real /usr, there are still some installations with a symlink around, and
coreutils is a pretty... core package, so supporting those people might
be ok.
Of course, that implies that I can't have a compatability symlink. I
guess since hurd isn't a released arch I don't care so much about
seamless transitions. I'll consider you the emissary of the hurd people;
tell me what you want and that's what I'll do.
Mike Stone
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