On policy, Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I see what you are saying, but why should we worry about tweaking > > upstream software in various packages (and who knows which they'll end > > up being?) to use "awk" instead of "nawk" when we can simply provide a > > nawk -> awk symlink in every awk package? > > We could say the same for /bin/perl -> /usr/bin/perl, but we don't. > Where is the difference?
Historical note: If my Debian history is right (unlikely I am new at this), there used to be a symlink /usr/spool/mail -> /var/spool/mail (or something like that I forget). It was removed to test which packages still used it, because policy was that it should not be used. Similar situation? -- I consume, therefore I am
