Package: usrmerge
Version : ?
When updating one of my old laptop, apt failed due to usrmerge detecting
duplicates between /bin and /usr/bin. usrmerge forced me to solve theses
duplicates by hand, which is a quite dangerous thing to ask to an user...
I tried to solve it by hand one by one, but when I noticed there were
hundred of duplicates, I tried to automate it a little... and of course
it was bound to happen, I didn't noticed that among the duplicates there
were symbolic links... and I lost bash and other commands...
usrmerge shouldn't encourage such dangerous behavior, and should protect
a little more the users that can always do mistakes, and will always do
mistakes (sometimes we are tired, hurried, etc). /usr/bin and /bin
directories are quite sensitive and should be treated with great care.
I think usrmerge should have done the following :
- print the number of duplicates ;
- print the number of symbolic links ;
- offer several merging methods :
- keep /bin ;
- keep /usr/bin ;
- keep the most recent ;
- keep /bin or /usr/bin depending on their order in the $PATH ;
- personalized : ask a y/n question for each duplicates.
Cordially,
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