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Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.

Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.

Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.

Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.

Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.

Personally, I think that the best solution would be to develop a way of sharing questions across all sites where they're on topic. The rules against cross-posting were developed back in the days when there was very little overlap between the subject matter of different SE sites. However, things are very different today. The question you mention would be on topic here, on Unix & Linux, on Ask Different, Super User, Elementary OS and maybe more. The current system would allow duplicate questions and duplicate answers across all of these sites.

While I quite agree that this is less than optimal, it's the way things are at the moment. There is no way of flagging cross-site duplicates and no actions mods can take even if such a flag were raised. If you know that the same question has been asked and answered elsewhere, you can feel free to copy it verbatim and post it as an answer here. It would be polite to include a link to the site where you found it, of course, but copying SE answers is very much allowed. We had a discussion on Unix & Linux meta a while ago and that was the conclusion there as well.

So, no, don't flag and yes, copy the existing answer. If you want to be super nice, you can make it Community Wiki so as not to get points for other people's work but, again, that's completely up to you.