On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 08:20:22PM +0100, tho...@goirand.fr wrote: > On Jan 11, 2025 10:09, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > > [..] In trixie and > > later, sysusers implementations are no longer coinstallable but mutually > > exclusive. This simplifies the story a lot. I propose mirroring the > > conflict and declaring "Conflicts: systemd-sysusers". As a result, we > > may do away with all of the diversions (and the file loss problem). > > All of this to arrive to this conclusion. This was a stupid loss > of DD time. I wish the TC had made a decision in this direction to > begin with, as in the first place I thought the diversion was the > worst possible implementation! > > It is a good thing though, if finally, we get rid of the diversion hack...
Well yes, not having packages diverting files of other packages would be a lot better everywhere. Not having multiple implementors of the same functionality just for NIH-reasons, too. Chris
