Sad outcome

Posted Nov 27, 2024 19:00 UTC (Wed) by nowster (subscriber, #67)
In reply to: Sad outcome by mgedmin
Parent article: The kernel's command-line commotion

For the Debian alternatives scenario there are two symlinks: one into /etc/alternatives and another to the actual executable in /bin. There are sometimes good reasons for local configuration in /etc to be on a different filesystem to /bin.

For example:

/bin/editor → /etc/alternatives/editor
/etc/alternatives/editor → /bin/nano