Please add GNU id-utils to Fedora

Michal Schmidt mschmidt at redhat.com
Fri May 11 09:05:09 UTC 2012


On 05/11/2012 10:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Technically there is no need to change a name.
> In Debian, one can have two lid programs installed, one in /usr/bin
> and the other in /usr/sbin[*], so why not in Fedora?

"Technically" there is no problem (at least until we decide remove the 
distinction between sbin and bin and unify them), but it is confusing to 
have a command that runs completely different programs based on the 
$PATH order.

Michal


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