Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jonathan Underwood (jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com) said:
>> Why not simplify the world and put everything in /bin and /usr/bin,
>> making /sbin and /usr/sbin symlinks for backwards compatibility?
>> Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served
>> flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are
>> one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having
>> commands work and sometimes not.
> Seems entirely reasonable.
Because it's changing 500 packages, and you can't do the replacement
sanely in RPM anyway.
Why does a package need to know if a directory is a symlink or not
unless it is the one that creates it?
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Les Mikesell
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