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* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC
  @ 2013-12-11 22:50 99%       ` William Hubbs
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From: William Hubbs @ 2013-12-11 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 09:09:16PM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
> If that's the case then I see no reason to go through the migration path
> for users :) The symlink thing can be done immediately.
> I am wondering, wouldn't Debian be able to rename "rc" to "openrc" in
> their openrc package just before merging it to the read filesystem (I
> assume Debian also builds and installs in sandbox first?)? In this case
> we will not have to touch openrc (or the ebuild) at all.

No, because of the symlinks that we point to it. Remember that rc is a
multi-call binary. for example, all of the symlinks in /lib*/rc/bin will
have to be adjusted.

William

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2013-12-11 20:47     ` Chris Reffett
2013-12-11 20:56       ` Paul Tagliamonte
2013-12-11 21:09         ` Markos Chandras
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