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

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

>>"Clint" == Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes:

 >> How are we to prevent this anyway? Who says any of the other
 >> solutions can't be botched like this?

 Clint> The difference is that I, as a user, would never expect for a
 Clint> postinst to look for something called deathrampage, and by
 Clint> extension, would never expect for a postinst to suddenly be
 Clint> running the 'deathrampage' script I put in /usr/local/bin for
 Clint> later carnage.


	And I would prefer the command I prefer to be run, as decided
 by the path argument. When I put something that comes in root's path
 ahead of the standard path, it is thre for a reason, and I would be
 extremely irked by some script pretending to know better than I.

	In other words, if the human has gone out of their way to put
 a command that precedes the default for root, they should get what
 they want. period.

	manoj
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