Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > If people are actually using gnulib-tool via this symlink trick then > we should keep supporting it. But I'm truly curious as to who they are > and why they want to do that rather than the obvious thing.
The Debian gnulib package has a symlink in /usr/bin that goes to /usr/share/gnulib, and there are several source packages that invoke gnulib this way. While this suggest the usage exists, I don't think it necessarily means we must continue support it -- this symlink business has always felt fragile and like a weird way of working to me. Btw, there are many useful tools in gnulib/build-aux/ that are useful to users and ought to be usable from /usr/bin on a system, and I've been thinking about adding an extra Debian package like 'gnulib-utils' that sets up the symlink (or not...) to below /usr/share/gnulib for the tools that I can identify as generally useful. /Simon
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