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Re: horse carcas flogging (was: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin)



On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:28:05PM -0400, Rene Weber wrote:
>     Don't think that I'm not seriously considering this (making a package
> that makes a symlink, that is).  Is there anything else that such a package
> might do?  What if I called it "fhs-compatibility" and used in to "fix"
> (probably just with symlinks for minimal impact) all such problems?  Are

Hmm. You could be really tricky and use dpkg-divert to move traceroute
from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin! Even better we could stick the diversion
in the base-files package and preempt Herbert.

>     Comments?  Is this worth thinking more about?  If so, just
> "traceroute-fhs", or a whole "fhs-compatibility" "package"?  Does anyone

Since our whole system is supposed to be FHS compliant it shouldn't
be necessary. Let's just fix the broken packages instead.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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