Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

El 7/5/25 a las 13:40, Simon Josefsson escribió:
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> writes:
>
> > El 7/5/25 a las 10:39, Matthias Urlichs escribió:
> > > On 06.05.25 13:31, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
> > > > Fedora doesn't set /bin anymore in the $PATH
> > > IMHO we should follow that practice, post-Trixie.
> >
> > I disagree that we should do that.
> >
> > AFAIK, the usr-merge was not about moving everything to usr/bin (that's an
> > implementation detail) but about making /bin and /usr/bin equivalent.
> >
> > So, while we could in theory drop /bin, doing so might involve undesired
> > side effects.
>
> I think we need to separate:
>
> 1) Removing /bin from the default PATH environment variable.
>
> 2) Removing the /bin symlink.
>
> To clarify, are you against both or just one of these?

Sorry for the confusion, I meant "drop /bin from the PATH".
(I don't think anybody is proposing 2) right now).

Thanks.