>>>>> Brian May writes: BM> There seems to be some debate as to whether we should remove /usr BM> as a symlink later on - I will stay out of this for now, but has BM> anyone considered (yet) what needs to be altered in Debian BM> packages for this to work? If not, then I will...
I've considered it. It's intractable. ;) Seriously, though, there are too many buried dependencies to make it worthwhile. Let's get the symlink in place, wait for more and more people to use it (i.e. maybe 20 years or so), then let natural order gradually kill all the /usr references. In 10-20 years, everybody with a /usr symlink is going to type /bin instead of /usr/bin when they write new programs, so they'll do the work for us. If we try to change the convention any sooner, we'll waste a lot of effort. Provide a channel for the river, then let it fill up the lake for you. Moving the water bucket by bucket is just a waste of time, and won't get it done any sooner. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
