/usrmove and path ordering
Ondrej Vasik
ovasik at redhat.com
Tue Feb 14 16:11:13 UTC 2012
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 17:08 +0100, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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> Dear developers,
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> 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.
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> 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.
/bin and /sbin paths were already removed in latest setup package - as
you no longer need them... so no need for bugzilla and report...
Ondrej Vasik
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