On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:33:10PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Huh?  This share is supposed to be shared?  If that was the case is should
> > be /usr/gnu/... and /usr/share/gnu/...
> 
> Well... it's still better having the GNU stuff seperate... we're still
> suffering from the GNU parts like "readlink" which went into /usr/bin/
> and then turned to be out the greatest abdominations ever
> (<rant>sometimes, at night... when it's 4AM and I hit problems with 'GNU
> "readlink" vs. uncommon fileystem' I am dreaming about appealing the
> whole /usr/gnu/ ARC case because of the GNU "readlink"
> <censored>-stuff</rant> (yes... I've talked to Stephen Hahn about that a
> while ago... but then more important stuff burried the subject... ;-(
> )).

Well, so here we have multiple ways in which "keywords" evolution can
blow things up:

 - ksh93 can grow new keywords that blow up existing scripts

 - /usr/bin can grow new executables that conflict with ksh93 built-ins
   (is that correct?)

Something should be done about each of those two problems.  I'm not sure
what easy answers might exist for the latter, short of maintaining a
namespace registry somewhere for shell and distro maintainers.

Not this case...

Nico
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