Re: /usr/dict/ -> /usr/share/dict/ request (bug #110632)
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- Subject: Re: /usr/dict/ -> /usr/share/dict/ request (bug #110632)
- From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk>
- Date: 01 Sep 2001 14:19:39 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 84k7zj6ob8.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>
- In-reply-to: Ethan Benson's message of "Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:32:02 GMT"
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Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> Mikael Hedin <mikael.hedin@irf.se> writes:
>>> The directory /usr/dict cannot exist on a FHS compliant system,
>>
>> Chapter and verse? I see nothing prohibiting a few symlinks in the
>> aid of backwards compatibility.
>
> that turns into a discusting mess very quickly. just look at a
> solaris system sometime.
That's your personal opinion of symlinks, not a reference to the FHS.
(I await with interest your attempt to have /etc/alternatives and
/etc/rc*.d eliminated or de-symlinked...)
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