Bug#176526: the problem with PATH setting in auxillary script of tetex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl> schrieb:

> Frank Küster writes:
>> Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl> schrieb:
>
>>> Having a command for use in scripts that duplicates the functionality
>>> of a system call named after that system call seemed reasonable at the
>>> time.
>
> Note that a similar situation exists with readlink, to the point where
> my system has three different implementations installed:
>
> 	/usr/local/bin/readlink - kpathsea, my build
> 	/bin/readlink - coreutils
> 	/lib/init/readlink - initscripts
>
> Happily these do not seem to be incompatible for basic usage.

We don't even install the kpathsea one with Debian's tetex-bin package.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie