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Simon Tathamsimontatham@hachyderm.io
Jun 30, 2026, 7:22 AM
@Darius hey, if you're really unlucky it's now in the wrong one of /sbin and /usr/sbin!
Debian's newfangled 'usr-merge' thing where /foo and /usr/foo point at the same place is _supposed_ to make it unnecessary to remember which things go where, but one noticeable effect for me is that now when I want to find out what package owns a binary, I run 'dpkg -S $(which thing)' and get no hits because 'which' finds /bin/thing first and dpkg -S has only indexed the file as /usr/bin/thing.
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Daniel O'ConnorDarius@mastodon.cloud
Jun 30, 2026, 7:23 AM
@simontatham 😭 All this pain to "solve" much more minor problems
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Ian JacksonDiziet@mastodon.me.uk
Jul 1, 2026, 1:30 AM
@simontatham @Darius The usrmerge disaster started as a way to help badly-written scripts (and config for bad tools that don't search PATH) port from Ubuntu to RH.
In Debian it became part of the toxic culture wars thing where making the naysayers cry is the point. It didn't even matter that we were crying about breakage of things even the "winners" used to rely on. No, must have progress! Oh, was that your ox we gored?
Yes I'm still bitter, why do you ask?
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