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 --