On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 02:37:41PM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:

On Wed Jun 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM BST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 11:30:06AM +0100, Gary Guo wrote:

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This is really just for distros to be able to configure where /sbin is located.
Given usr merge and (some distros) bin/sbin merge, the canonical path of
request-key binary is very likely not /sbin/request-key anymore, so it seems to
make sense to me to allow this to be changed rather than always go through
compatibility symlinks.

I doubt there's a huge demand other than NixOS. Just basing this on that
no other noise have been made so far.

Just to add on this, both Fedora and openSUSE for example changes their
CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH to be /usr/sbin/modprobe after /usr merge. They still have
the /sbin -> /usr/sbin symlink available, so it's not like they cannot work with
/sbin/request-key, but I would think that if the option is available then they
might switch to use /usr/sbin/request-key, too.

After all, why would one perform a symlink walk for no reason?

Best,
Gary

It's not who is right or who is wrong. "The representation
of the argument" is not working here.

Back to the drawing board...

BR, Jarkko