On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:02:27PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:51:12PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > There is no logic in putting symlinks into all packages. > > The whole purpose of having the usr symlink is for packages that install > > into /usr. If we were going to change packages, they should not install > > into /usr in the first place, so we could just remove the symlink. > > Mmmh, on second glance it seems that Robert suggested just that, I > apologize. Using the empty prefix (NOT /, that is wrong. it should > be --prefix= , without anything after the =) is appealing, but we > should be able to make the system work flawlessly without that, and > can do it at any time later, without any urgency.
okay then. btw, dpkg -S needs fixing too? -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]