[OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
>
> We have similar silliness w/ /usr/X11 being a tree of links pointing 
> to /usr.  Again, setting the default PATH properly in the system 
> files is much cleaner.

Many paths are already burned into software on existing CD/DVDs or 
used as default search locations by existing software.  The /usr/X11 
path is a common convention established long ago and is not Solaris 
specific.

The problem is not really the symbolic links.  The problem is if there 
is a clear plan for how things will finally be in the future.

Bob
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