Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms
Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 07:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This is already the case. Policy 10.1:
>> To support merged-/usr systems, packages must not install files in
>> both /path and /usr/path. For example, a package must not install both
>> /bin/example and /usr/bin/example.
> Thank you - is that intended to mean "the same package", or "any two
> packages"? Ie, is foo2 allowed to install /bin/foo if foo1 installs
> /usr/bin/foo or is that RC-buggy too?
I don't think we have an explicit statement that you can't do this because
I'm not sure it's come up, but it's obviously not a safe thing to do (and
that was true long before usrmerge was even considered).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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