Bug#216606: dpkg: update-alternatives should be in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:37:39AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:54:38PM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> > As it is possible for users to do useful things with the
> > update-alternatives program ( --display etc. ), it should be in
> > /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin.
>
> I agree. Not having it in $PATH means my shell will take some typing
> before it autocompletes it, and we all know excess typing is a bad
> thing ;)
I certainly have some sympathy with this bug report, but we should be
careful to check for buggy maintainer scripts that hardcode the location
of update-alternatives (rather than prepending /usr/sbin:/sbin to $PATH
and just running it that way) before changing it.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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