On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 04:02:05PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The standards FHS directory layout gives us four locations in which to > put executabes: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin. In theory we could > then have four providers of yoyo, but that would be very confusing. > Even using bin vs sbin is confusing: if you're used to running foo's > yoyo as your normal user, it'll be quite a surprise when you try to > run it as root and get bar's yoyo instead.
Thus, what about adding this to the Policy? These five locations (also /usr/games) should be considered the same wrt file conflicts. I see some legitimate scenarios for a single package to have something both in $X/bin and $X/sbin, but not really across package boundaries. -- Gnome 3, Windows 8, Slashdot Beta, now Firefox Ribbon^WAustralis. WTF is going on with replacing usable interfaces with tabletized ones? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140706190425.ga9...@angband.pl
