<p>i can second <a href="https://github.com/waja" class="user-mention">@waja</a>, can be handled distribution side (versions are artificial):</p>

<ul>
<li>nagios-plugins 2.4-1 conflicts procps < 3.1.10)</li>
<li>where procps 3.1.10 introduced path change.</li>
</ul>

<p>probably harder to achieve in gentoo like systems, and such distros can just keep legacy symlink to minimize the breakage.</p>

<p>and distro should use hardcoded path from compile time to ensure idempotence<br>
<a href="https://github.com/pld-linux/nagios-plugins/blob/auto/th/nagios-plugins-2.1.1-5/nagios-plugins.spec#L574">https://github.com/pld-linux/nagios-plugins/blob/auto/th/nagios-plugins-2.1.1-5/nagios-plugins.spec#L574</a></p>

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