the awk ebuild doesn't create a link in /bin, but because this is such a major unic program and many scripts expect it to be there (granted, maybe a fault with the scripts), it would probably be a good idea to link /usr/bin/awk to /bin/awk by default.
He may have a point on this. I remember I had a problem with booting up a while ago because /usr is a separate partition and awk is used in depscan.sh. Dunno if that's still the case, but if it is, would it warrant the binary being placed in /bin and the symlink to it in /usr/bin ?
Example scripts ? (Note to Seemant: depscan.sh dont use awk anymore ... actually dont think it ever did. I think it was the /usr/bin/basename that it used which gave us that headace.)
The scripts I was talking about weren't Gentoo scripts. Just things like Cisco vpnclient and Oracle Client installs that had trouble finding some binaries and I need to hand create a few links to get them to work. I suppose this is more of an error in their script writing, but I was wondering if certain utils and locations are so "unix standard" that including them in /bin isn't such a bad idea.... sh awk sed
Point taken. Btw, sh and sed are already in /bin.
gawk-3.1.0-r2 should fix the /bin/awk symlink.