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Re: egrep moved to /usr/sbin



On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:33:50PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote:

> In a recent NMU, egrep moved from /bin to /usr/bin, probably breaking a
> lot of other packages. For example, logcheck doesn't work any more. 

Or, more appropriately, it caused already-broken packages to be exposed for
what they truly are. ;-)

Hard-coding paths to programs is evil.  Don't do it.

-- 
 - mdz



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