On 01/27/2012 06:05 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
> Actually... we will "always" need the compat symlinks (for a finite but
> definitely long value of "always"). Third party scripts, scripts that
have
> been in use on local systems, written by people who have long since passed
> on (to new jobs), people targetting FHS compliant systems (unless the FHS
> changes), etc will all depend on those symlinks being present. Even third
> party software that users want to compile and run may try to install into
> /bin, /sbin, and /lib so we may have that problem even there.
And things like /bin/sh are compiled into glibc...
And hard coded into 1000s of scripts and packages.
I seriously think, Fedora has many urgent problems to address than the
churn this "Feature" causes.