On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:44, Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719785 for the motivation > > The environment module system allows users to modify their environment in a > predictable way, including setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, this makes it > possible to break the modulecmd binary by putting an incompatible TCL (or > other) library earlier in the path. It would be great if modulecmd were made > impervious to such things, but I don't know the best or acceptable method to > do this. I'm guessing using rpaths would be the easiest. > > Thoughts/suggestions? > To be honest, I think this falls under: User shoots self in foot. I have run into this a lot and done it quite a few times myself... but in the end it usually meant finding out I had old software I no longer needed while not breaking software I still needed to have work. Is this a security issue? -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
