Bug#727708: systemd and support for other distros
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:48:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I have never seen a gratuitous incompatibility caused by this. Do you
>> have any examples?
> I would argue that every single result returned by 'ls -l /usr/sbin/
> /usr/bin|grep /bin', preventing us from merging /usr/ into / by default,
> is an example of such historical incompatibilities. But any other cases
> where binaries have moved from one directory or another without
> providing such compat symlinks would also qualify.
Ah, yes, thank you. Having to maintain those compatibility symlinks is
indeed a burden that's incurred by using fully-qualified paths.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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