Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:48:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I have never seen a gratuitous incompatibility caused by this. Do you >> have any examples? > I would argue that every single result returned by 'ls -l /usr/sbin/ > /usr/bin|grep /bin', preventing us from merging /usr/ into / by default, > is an example of such historical incompatibilities. But any other cases > where binaries have moved from one directory or another without > providing such compat symlinks would also qualify. Ah, yes, thank you. Having to maintain those compatibility symlinks is indeed a burden that's incurred by using fully-qualified paths. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
