Bug#499537: might conflict with aircrack-ng?

[Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 07:24:22 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 07:03 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> 
> > Yep. I think either /usr/bin or /bin is most appropriate, but I just have this
> > feeling that someone will want their wifi to get /usr/ mounted sometime (this
> > is Debian, they want to do this crazy stuff all the time), which means that
> > using /bin now would cause less headaches in the future (when everyones scripts
> > are using absolute paths to /usr/bin/iw already...).
> 
> It's pathogenic, and I'd suggest to put iw into the initramfs ;)
> 
> > If that is a realistic scenario, it would leave the choice of the Debian iw
> > maintainer to a) say that use case is not possible, and stick to his guns, or
> > b) move iw to /bin and thus possibly diverge from what the rest of the
> > distro's, and you as upstream, are doing.
> 
> Doesn't that depend on libnl upstream again? That installs to /usr/lib
> by default, so I don't think I should install to /bin as iw upstream.
> I'd be willing to change but it seems that it depends on libnl upstream
> changing too?

For it to be an effective change, yep, it would depend on that.

Thanks, Kel.