[tmyklebu]

What makes you think he misunderstood? What happens on fc30 when you 'yum install dstat' as he suggested?

This webpage listing the contents of the fc30 pcp-system-tools package: https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-updates-x86_64/pcp-system-...

lists a file called '/usr/bin/dstat'. The pcp-system-tools package obsoletes a package called 'dstat'. If you go to https://pkgs.org/download/dstat, and look under "Fedora 30," you get pcp-system-tools.

[Spoiler: 'yum install dstat' installs pcp-system-tools, which has a symlink /usr/bin/dstat -> /usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pcp-dstat.]

[GauntletWizard]

An alias to the replacement is not the same as silently replacing the package. Yes, the user who care will notice - it's a tool for sysadmins, and the ones worth their salt are already familiar with precisely this provision in package managers, and it's included for precisely this reason. There's always politics involved in replacing a tool, but they didn't steal his namespace - they made the decision to package their own alternative, and yes, that editorial decision does lie with the distribution.