Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Kettlewell dijo [Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:42:01PM +0100]:
>> I think it doesn't go far enough. >> >> mv sbin/* bin >> rmdir sbin >> ln -s bin sbin >> >> ...and the problem goes away forever. > > You type too fast. > > Are you _sure_ no two Debian packages provide overlapping /bin/$that > and /sbin/$that ? Or /usr/bin/$foo and /usr/sbin/$foo ? Or (going back > some flamewars^Wweeks) /bin/$bleh and /usr/bin/$bleh ? ...Or, > mix-and-match, /sbin/$this and /usr/bin/$this? There are some examples of symlinks between bin and sbin, presumably to work around the existing sbin braindamage. /sbin/ip -> /bin/ip, for instance. Not hard to cope with when you make the transition and for the longer term, dpkg could probably be taught to handle this case sensibly. If there's a case where you have /bin/foo and /sbin/foo actually meaning something different then that's plainly a bug in at least one of them, if not both, and needs fixing regardless. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
