* Robert Lemmen (robertle@semistable.com) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:10:56PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I'd move them back but change them to be the same binary again instead > > of three seperate ones that just take up disk space for no real gain. > > and file the bugs? perhaps with a low severity? Sure, file bugs against things that hardcord paths to binaries. Personally I don't mind scripts having PATH= set since they can at times be run both by non-root users and by root users who may want /usr/local/bin in general but not for scripts due to the possibility of changing behaviour. (ie: A new version of df comes out and the root users wants to have it installed because it produces nice, but different, output, so s/he compiles and installs it to /usr/local/bin; some script which depends on the output of df then breaks, not fun; I've had this happen on non-Debian systems before) I don't know the perfect solution to make everyone happy but I know I wouldn't be against a, say, /etc/default/environment with sane defaults but which root can modify if he wants something like /usr/local/bin in the PATH for scripts. Stephen
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