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Not sure I’m happy with this.

Take this, for example:

https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl/src/branch/main/Makefile#L64

The install target of a Wayland compositor uses cp to copy the compiled binary to your bin directory. So, as of Linux 6.11, when you recompile this compositor and reinstall it, it will crash your entire Wayland session. 🧟💀🧟

One way to avoid this crash is to use install instead of cp. install calls unlink() before copying the data, thus avoiding this situation entirely. Not all Makefiles do that, though.