Re: move to merged-usr-only?

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 11:07 +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:33 AM Ansgar wrote:
> 
> > The goal is to have /bin and /usr/bin to have identical contents.
> > So one would need a new /bin/python3 -> /usr/bin/python3 symlinks
> 
> Those seem unnecessary to me, since we have $PATH and nothing should
> be using /bin/python3 at this stage.

We have $PATH, yet there are bugs that come from using `/usr/bin/rm` as
mentioned in my inital mail.  There is no reason to assume that the
same doesn't happen in the other direction.

I've already seen people using `#!/bin/python` as interpreter a long
time ago (before Debian had merged-/usr by default).  One can try to
educate people that this is wrong because some binaries were
historically only available in /usr (due to too small root disk, but a
larger disk for /home), but why bother when we can just get rid of the
problem and even already have done so partly?

Or you can say we ignore that error class for a few more years and only
address half of it and then the other half in X years.

Ansgar