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Re: /usr/dict/ -> /usr/share/dict/ request (bug #110632)



On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:19:39PM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 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.

the FHS says /usr/share/dict not /usr/dict.  end of story.  

don't like it make your own damn symlink.

> (I await with interest your attempt to have /etc/alternatives and
> /etc/rc*.d eliminated or de-symlinked...)

those have nothing to do with bassackwards compatibilty cruft.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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