> 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