Re: Frivolous forking

[D. J. Bernstein]

Russ Allbery writes:
> The notion of an NFS-mounted /usr that contains all static binaries

All I'm asking for is a single cross-platform location, /var/qmail,
where users and scripts and other programs can find the qmail files.

That doesn't stop you from symlinking /var/qmail/bin to a shared disk,
if you have coordinated all compile-time information, notably the uids.
Vendors that include qmail in the base package can easily do this.

Debian moved the files _without_ leaving symlinks. That's frivolous
incompatibility. Red Hat wants to do the same thing, presumably to a
different set of locations. When will they ever learn?

---Dan