Re: /usr/lib to /lib symlinks (absolute?)
Le vendredi 18 juillet 2014 à 09:33 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 02:27:53PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote:
> > Could we add an exception to Debian policy 10.5 to mandate relative
> > symlinks when linking /usr/lib to /lib or do you envision other issues
> > I might have not taken into account?
>
> It's still possible to use /usr as a separate filesystem (I hope we can
> avoid derailing into an argument about whether that's a sensible thing
> to do, and simply note that we have a hard-to-determine but definitely
> non-zero number of user systems in this configuration), and permitting
> relative symlinks from /usr/lib to /lib would break such a setup.
It would not break all setups with a separate /usr.
It would only break setups where /usr or /usr/lib is a symbolic link.
I think it’s a bad idea to use symbolic links rather than bind mounts
for this kind of stuff, but I’m pretty sure we would break some systems
if we stopped supporting that, though.
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