Re: djblinux?

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:24:13 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Jarc (Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:45:08PM -0400):
>> Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Why not breaking backward compatibility?  Create:
>>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         1 Jun 17 10:51 /usr -> usr
>>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /bin -> bin
>>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /var -> var
>   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /lib -> lib
>   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /etc -> etc
>
>> What do you mean?  A symlink that points to itself is broken.
>
> Yes, so every non-/package style software breaks in djb-os.

What's the benefit?


paul