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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?</H1>
+ <B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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+ <I>Sun Sep 9 20:45:07 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 09/09/12 15:43 did gyre and gimble:
+&gt;<i> Colin Guthrie wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> As a feature it's not pointless, but as an implementation it didn't
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> really cover things and I call it pointless as the feature only covered
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> the shutdown binary and not poweroff, halt or reboot binaries.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Actually it did cover all of them. If ALLOW_REBOOT=no is set, it removes all 4 of those symlinks. If it's set back to yes, it restores them.
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+Interesting, so I guess the feature was out of sync with the packaging
+then as the symlinks for the others were included in packages and thus
+would have resulted in rpm -V issues. Hey ho, time for a tidy up :)
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+Col
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