Packages MUST NOT place files or directories in the /bin, /sbin, /lib or /lib64 directories

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Thu Jul 11 14:46:03 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 07:22 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> I'll note that this does slightly undercut one of the tenants of UsrMove --
> that people won't have to guess as to which directory a file lives in; it's
> always in /usr/bin.  That will still hold true for someone who is the author
> of a script but it will no longer hold true for someone who is the packager
> of that script as rpm dependencies will only find one of them.

Or change rpm's dependency resolver to understand bin -> usr/bin?




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