On Saturday 05 April 2003 18:38, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >>Couldn't that be avoided (for most packages) with a LD_PRELOAD looks in > >>$(HOME)/myroot/* before using /*? > > > > Can I puke now or do I have to wait until later? > > I don't want to claim that it's a good idea, it just seems to be what > everyone else does (and hey, after all, didn't we tag clusters bad in FATs > to have a place to store our encrypted directory data?). > If you have time to waste though, I'd certainly be interested in why it's > that appalling... One thing that comes to mind: there's packages that want the real /etc because they are installed globally, and there's packages that want the fake /etc because the are installed in $HOME. How can you clearly distinguish these cases? Even when a locally installed package internally calls a globally installed one? I think the suggestion of only doing this for source packages is the right one. cheers -- vbi -- random link of the day: http://fortytwo.ch/sienapei/ahsheeso
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