Comment 18 for bug 343242

Quick question as I'm also affected by this. I've made the symlink suggested above, so now this is not urgent. I assume there is a policy or philosophy statement wherein it is OK to break existing code in favor of better infrastructure; I'd like to make a process suggestion about how to get around this sort of issue, but I want to make it in the right place and in the right way. Where could I read that kind of stuff?