On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 11:07 +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:33 AM Ansgar wrote: > > > The goal is to have /bin and /usr/bin to have identical contents. > > So one would need a new /bin/python3 -> /usr/bin/python3 symlinks > > Those seem unnecessary to me, since we have $PATH and nothing should > be using /bin/python3 at this stage.
We have $PATH, yet there are bugs that come from using `/usr/bin/rm` as mentioned in my inital mail. There is no reason to assume that the same doesn't happen in the other direction. I've already seen people using `#!/bin/python` as interpreter a long time ago (before Debian had merged-/usr by default). One can try to educate people that this is wrong because some binaries were historically only available in /usr (due to too small root disk, but a larger disk for /home), but why bother when we can just get rid of the problem and even already have done so partly? Or you can say we ignore that error class for a few more years and only address half of it and then the other half in X years. Ansgar
