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Re: multiarch status update



Scripsit "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>> That would be total insanity. Just think about the number of scripts
>> with "#!/usr/bin/python" in it that would have to be changed. And how

> Shouldn't such hard-coded paths be avoided in the long term (anyway)?

The Linux kernel requires a full path for #! scripts.  This makes
sense if one considers a #! program to be something that should have
predictable behavior no matter what the user happens to have in his
$PATH.

In multiarch, the right approach to this particular problem is to
arrange for /usr/bin/python to be a symlink to /usr/bin/$arch/python
with $arch chosen (somehow) appropriately for a default python
interpreter.

-- 
Henning Makholm                        "Detta, sade de, vore rena sanningen;
                                 ty de kunde tala sanning lika väl som någon
                             annan, när de bara visste vad det tjänade til."



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