/usrmove and path ordering

Michel Alexandre Salim salimma at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 14 16:08:53 UTC 2012


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Dear developers,

Now that the /usrmove changes have landed in the F-17 branch, should
the ordering of directories in PATH be changed? /usr/bin should appear
before /bin and /usr/sbin before /sbin.

Right now $(which a-binary) would report that all /usr/... binaries
are located in /bin and /sbin instead; while it is mostly just
cosmetic, some programs (e.g. pure-gen) use the heuristic of computing
their default installation prefix based on the location of another
binary, and get confused if that prefix is empty.

Is this a reasonable change? I'll file a bug report if that's the case.

Thanks,

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Michel Alexandre Salim
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