Subject: Re: bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:34:38 -0800

On 11/29/21 14:06, Bob Proulx wrote:
> mv calls it SOURCE and DEST.  cp calls it SOURCE and DEST.  Perhaps ln
> should also call it SOURCE and DEST too for consistency?

That's what ln did long ago, but that wording was deemed too confusing. 
Here's where we changed it to use something more like the current wording:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=519365bb089cf90bdc780c37292938f42019c7ea