On 05/28/2018 10:05 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Vitezslav Crhonek, > > Gürkan Myczko sent the below forwarded message to fedora devel list > in May 2017, but it seems there was no followup so I'm trying > sending it directly to you as you seem to be the one who has > been actively committing to the kbd package in fedora. > > In summary, some people would like to se "open" command be used > for a different purpose than the current decades old compatibility > link. Personally I think if/when the link is removed we should make > sure it's not reused for anything for multiple releases/years to avoid > confusion about it pointing to different things in different > things in different distros. > > What do you think? Is it doable to drop it in Fedora? > > I'd be willing to drop it in Debian which should trickle down to > all derived .deb based distros. Hopefully if you change Fedora > the rest of the .rpm world will follow suite. This should make > the change pretty universal I think and avoid deviating between > different distros. > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Gürkan Myczko <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> ----- > > Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:00:52 +0200 > From: Gürkan Myczko <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> > To: de...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Cc: 732...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Please remove the link from open to openvt > User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.5 > > Hello, > > First, I have no relation to Fedora, but I write here because of this bug in > Debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732796 > > Would you guys at Fedora feel like it's time to get rid of the symlink > /bin/open to make space for > xdg-open (for fdo fans) or gopen/openapp (for macOS, GNUstep fans). > > The name change was like 16 years ago. And I wasn't able to find anything > still using /bin/open. > > Thanks, > Myczko > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
Hello Andreas, Sorry for late response. I have no objections against dropping it and I'm willing to do it in Fedora Rawhide. Best regards, Vita -- Vitezslav Crhonek Software Engineer Red Hat
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