On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > Change the rules for all the Debian distribution because you find that > 'command -v' is handy, seems quite excessive to me... You need to stop hitting the hooch and start thinking more about what Debian is trying to accomplish. Over six hundred packages already use it, it prevents the hard-coding of paths into maintainer scripts and thus renders them more robust against harmless changes in other packages (e.g., moving traceroute from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin) and is otherwise useful. I am far from the only package maintainer who employs this tool. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have branden@debian.org | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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