UsrMove feature (was Re: FESCo meeting minutes for 2011-10-24)

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Oct 26 13:44:09 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 13:39 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:

> It also makes system scripts more fragile; for example, if somebody
> installs (from source) a different version of python in /usr/local/bin,
> all RPM-installed scripts in /usr/bin (that may not even work with that
> version) will now use the new version with unpredictable results.

It also breaks rpm's dependency generator, since the interpreter will be
detected as /usr/bin/env, and now your python scripts don't Require:
python.

- ajax
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