@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?