Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.
> I just read this:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/
> It seems as a good idea that merge of /usr.
> I was wondering what would happen if some program used filesystem paths
> as its input data for some processing task. He he, yes, changing status quo
> is not easy
Here's one source of breakage I encountered a few times because of this
/usr merge (which I generally welcome, BTW):
dpkg -S =foo
this (using the Zsh shell) should give me the name of the Debian package
which provides the command `foo`. It works well for most commands, but
it fails for `ifconfig` because `ifconfig` was actually installed in
/sbin/ifconfig (but the /usr merge makes this same /sbin directory
available under the name /usr/sbin so Zsh thinks that `ifconfig` comes
from `/usr/sbin/ifconfig` whereas `dpkg` doesn't have any record of
installing a `/usr/sbin/ifconfig` file).
Stefan
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