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Re: merged /usr vs. symlink farms



Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:

> I've asked this before - I might be very wrong, but I was under the
> impression that having both /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo (which is the
> example mentioned) was already considered RC-buggy and needed fixing?
> Is that not the case?

This is already the case.  Policy 10.1:

    To support merged-/usr systems, packages must not install files in
    both /path and /usr/path. For example, a package must not install both
    /bin/example and /usr/bin/example.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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