Bug#1050001: Practical problems with proposed symlink farming: diversions

2023-09-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2023-09-01 Ansgar wrote: > Hi, > a practical thing with usrmerge and legacy layout[1] is the following: > assume you do not want programs to find a specific program via PATH > lookup or even a fully-qualified path. > Then a user can just divert that single program away (or just remove > it,

Bug#1050001: Practical problems with proposed symlink farming: diversions

2023-09-01 Thread Ansgar
Hi, a practical thing with usrmerge and legacy layout[1] is the following: assume you do not want programs to find a specific program via PATH lookup or even a fully-qualified path. Then a user can just divert that single program away (or just remove it, depending on details). With Jackson's