Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:02:08AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > How are we to prevent this anyway? Who says any of the other solutions can't
> > be botched like this?
> 
> The difference is that I, as a user, would never expect for a postinst
> to look for something called deathrampage, and by extension, would never
> expect for a postinst to suddenly be running the 'deathrampage' script I
> put in /usr/local/bin for later carnage.

What if the user puts "tripwire" or some other nice English word in the
path, not knowing this is also a command in Debian? It's really hard to
account for any of these weird scenarios...

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