On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:06:48PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > And there are good reasons why that makes sense. The typical > > situation is that some binary in the distribution doesn't behave in > > exactly the way the syasadmin wants, so the sysadmin can override it > > with a local binary (or script) in /us/rlocal. > > Or: dpkg --purge <package> so that the /usr/local version will work ;-) That's not always possible like that. For example, a sysadmin may want to override only one program out of a multi-program package. Or he/she might want to override a program with a wrapper that walls the actual program. This is a reason why one sysadmin should want to have /usr/local/bin first in path. Regards, Nicolas
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