Michal Schmidt wrote: > On 05/14/2012 10:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Miloslav Trmač wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure that naming conflicts in /usr/bin have happened before >>> in Fedora, I'm not sure how they were resolved. >> >> Even in a relatively minimal system, I see many programs installed >> in both /sbin and /bin, though none seem to conflict: >> [...] >> Odd that some point from /bin to /sbin, and others from /sbin to /bin. >> Some use relative symlinks, others use absolute. > > These are not comparable to the "lid" situation. They are either: > - programs using consolehelper, the legacy privilege escalation > mechanism, which depends on one of the names being a symlink to > consolehelper and the other name being the program itself, > or > - cases where the program historically lived in one directory, then > was moved to the other and a symlink in the old directory was added > for backwards compat. But it is the same program. > > They're not comparable to the "lid" name conflict between two different programs. Thanks for confirming my "none seem to conflict" comment. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
