Hello Vitezslav Crhonek, Gürkan Myczko sent the below forwarded message to fedora devel list in May 2017, but it seems there was no followup so I'm trying sending it directly to you as you seem to be the one who has been actively committing to the kbd package in fedora.
In summary, some people would like to se "open" command be used for a different purpose than the current decades old compatibility link. Personally I think if/when the link is removed we should make sure it's not reused for anything for multiple releases/years to avoid confusion about it pointing to different things in different things in different distros. What do you think? Is it doable to drop it in Fedora? I'd be willing to drop it in Debian which should trickle down to all derived .deb based distros. Hopefully if you change Fedora the rest of the .rpm world will follow suite. This should make the change pretty universal I think and avoid deviating between different distros. Regards, Andreas Henriksson ----- Forwarded message from Gürkan Myczko <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> ----- Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:00:52 +0200 From: Gürkan Myczko <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> To: de...@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: 732...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Please remove the link from open to openvt User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.5 Hello, First, I have no relation to Fedora, but I write here because of this bug in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732796 Would you guys at Fedora feel like it's time to get rid of the symlink /bin/open to make space for xdg-open (for fdo fans) or gopen/openapp (for macOS, GNUstep fans). The name change was like 16 years ago. And I wasn't able to find anything still using /bin/open. Thanks, Myczko ----- End forwarded message -----
