Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

[Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux@bigfoot.com>]

Joey Hess@lists.debian-devel@Mon, 27 May 2002 01:13:12 -0400:
>  command -v seems worse or equal to which.
>  
Worse:

roy~$ command -v ls
alias ls='ls -hF --color=auto'
roy~$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls -hF --color=auto'
roy~$ which ls
/bin/ls

Only which does exactly what it should..

roy~$ dpkg -S `which which`
debianutils: /usr/bin/which
roy~$ apt-cache show debianutils
Package: debianutils
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base
[...]

Hmm... Try to remove that!

roy~# dpkg -P debianutils
dpkg: error processing debianutils (--purge):
 This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 debianutils

So, what's wrong with which?

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