i can second @waja, can be handled distribution side (versions are artificial): - nagios-plugins 2.4-1 conflicts procps < 3.1.10) - where procps 3.1.10 introduced path change.
probably harder to achieve in gentoo like systems, and such distros can just keep legacy symlink to minimize the breakage. and distro should use hardcoded path from compile time to ensure idempotence https://github.com/pld-linux/nagios-plugins/blob/auto/th/nagios-plugins-2.1.1-5/nagios-plugins.spec#L574 -- Reply to this email on GitHub: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/issues/1394#issuecomment-184340326