Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:48:52PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I have never seen a gratuitous incompatibility caused by this.  Do you
>> have any examples?

> I would argue that every single result returned by 'ls -l /usr/sbin/
> /usr/bin|grep /bin', preventing us from merging /usr/ into / by default,
> is an example of such historical incompatibilities.  But any other cases
> where binaries have moved from one directory or another without
> providing such compat symlinks would also qualify.

Ah, yes, thank you.  Having to maintain those compatibility symlinks is
indeed a burden that's incurred by using fully-qualified paths.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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