[csw-maintainers] User requests symlinking from /usr/bin to /opt/csw/bin

James Lee james at opencsw.org
Wed Nov 18 12:20:21 CET 2009


On 18/11/09, 09:06:01, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org>
wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] User requests symlinking from /usr/bin
to
/opt/csw/bin:

> There's a user request to create symlinks from /usr/bin to
> /opt/csw/bin, for instance, /usr/bin/lpr --> /opt/csw/bin/lpr.

I think it's not good.

It will fail in a zone with global /usr.


Same question applies to /usr/lib/sendmail.  Too many bad programs
hard code sendmail in - that's tautology hard coding sendmail defines
a program as bad!



James.



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