Re: Package maintainer script policy.

To: Ruud de Rooij <r.c.m.derooij@twi.tudelft.nl>
Cc: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package maintainer script policy.
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:23:07 -0400
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Ruud de Rooij <r.c.m.derooij@twi.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Actually, the libreadline postinst uses execlp() which does respect $PATH.

Oops, drat, should have looked that one up.

I still think it's silling for this one package to introduce the
concept of a dynamically linked executable as a "script".  And,
I still think that this thing has no advantage over the postinst 
supplied with libc6.

-- 
Raul


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