Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On 01/27/2012 06:05 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > >Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >>Actually... we will "always" need the compat symlinks (for a finite but > >>definitely long value of "always"). Third party scripts, scripts that have > >>been in use on local systems, written by people who have long since passed > >>on (to new jobs), people targetting FHS compliant systems (unless the FHS > >>changes), etc will all depend on those symlinks being present. Even third > >>party software that users want to compile and run may try to install into > >>/bin, /sbin, and /lib so we may have that problem even there. > > > >And things like /bin/sh are compiled into glibc... > > And hard coded into 1000s of scripts and packages. > > I seriously think, Fedora has many urgent problems to address than > the churn this "Feature" causes. ? There's no churn required due to packages having /bin/sh in them. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
