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Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy



On Sat, 25 May 2002, Clint Adams wrote:

> > the problem is there is no better replacement for 'command -v'.  And we do not
> > really need an exception -- every shell we have supports this.  So the only way
>
> Well, that's not true.  As Luca has pointed out, /usr/bin/which is
> Essential at the moment.  Also, not every shell in Debian supports
> `command -v', as was pointed out.

Of course, which doesn't handle commands that start with -(see 148178), so
attempting to auto-check whether command -v works as it should is problematic.


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