On 2013-10-04 at 19:34:43 [+0200], John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm a bit late to this discussion, but, won't this break binaries that > specify /boot/common instead of using the B_COMMON_DIRECTORY and > friends paths or how does that work? Yes, software that uses a fixed path pointing to /boot/common will no longer work. Then again, that software is conceptually broken anyway, as the precise reason for having find_directory() is to avoid problems when directories move around. cheers, Oliver