On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:45:14AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 18 juillet 2014 à 09:33 +0100, Colin Watson a écrit : > > It's still possible to use /usr as a separate filesystem (I hope we can > > avoid derailing into an argument about whether that's a sensible thing > > to do, and simply note that we have a hard-to-determine but definitely > > non-zero number of user systems in this configuration), and permitting > > relative symlinks from /usr/lib to /lib would break such a setup. > > It would not break all setups with a separate /usr. > It would only break setups where /usr or /usr/lib is a symbolic link.
Er, yes. Quite right, thanks. > I think it’s a bad idea to use symbolic links rather than bind mounts > for this kind of stuff, but I’m pretty sure we would break some systems > if we stopped supporting that, though. Yeah, I suspect there are some old-school sysadmins who do "oh, I ran out of space, ln -s /space/usr /usr". I agree with your bad-idea intuition, but ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140718225636.ga9...@riva.ucam.org