Hi! On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 21:04:25 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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.
<https://bugs.debian.org/562863> Thanks, Guillem -- 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/20140706195636.ga...@gaara.hadrons.org
