[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#732796: Please remove the link from open to openvt

[Vitezslav Crhonek]

On 05/28/2018 10:05 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello Vitezslav Crhonek,
> 
> Gürkan Myczko sent the below forwarded message to fedora devel list
> in May 2017, but it seems there was no followup so I'm trying
> sending it directly to you as you seem to be the one who has
> been actively committing to the kbd package in fedora.
> 
> In summary, some people would like to se "open" command be used
> for a different purpose than the current decades old compatibility
> link. Personally I think if/when the link is removed we should make
> sure it's not reused for anything for multiple releases/years to avoid
> confusion about it pointing to different things in different
> things in different distros.
> 
> What do you think? Is it doable to drop it in Fedora?
> 
> I'd be willing to drop it in Debian which should trickle down to
> all derived .deb based distros. Hopefully if you change Fedora
> the rest of the .rpm world will follow suite. This should make
> the change pretty universal I think and avoid deviating between
> different distros.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Gürkan Myczko <gurkan at phys.ethz.ch> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:00:52 +0200
> From: Gürkan Myczko <gurkan at phys.ethz.ch>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Cc: 732796 at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Please remove the link from open to openvt
> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.5
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First, I have no relation to Fedora, but I write here because of this bug in
> Debian:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732796
> 
> Would you guys at Fedora feel like it's time to get rid of the symlink
> /bin/open to make space for
> xdg-open (for fdo fans) or gopen/openapp (for macOS, GNUstep fans).
> 
> The name change was like 16 years ago. And I wasn't able to find anything
> still using /bin/open.
> 
> Thanks,
> Myczko
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 


Hello Andreas,

Sorry for late response.

I have no objections against dropping it and I'm willing to do it
in Fedora Rawhide.

Best regards,
Vita

-- 
Vitezslav Crhonek
Software Engineer
Red Hat

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