On 2023-09-01 Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> wrote: > Hi, > a practical thing with usrmerge and legacy layout[1] is the following: > assume you do not want programs to find a specific program via PATH > lookup or even a fully-qualified path. > Then a user can just divert that single program away (or just remove > it, depending on details).
> With Jackson's proposed symlink farms this property goes away: > users now have to handle both the copy in / and /usr! [...] Hello, I do not think this is the case. A) The proposed /bin/ will not contain symlinks for everything in /usr/bin but just for files that used to live there. I am not sure how common it is to divert one of this subset in the first place. B) I Think diverting the real file in /usr/bin would be enough, the now broken symlink in /bin should not be found by normal path search - At least that is true for bash, dash and tcsh, also test -x does not succeed on the symlink. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
