On 06/22/2012 01:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Andrew Haley writes: > >> > Why not take /bin and /sbin out of the default path *and* make sure >> > that RPM knows about /bin/* ? > I would expect that changing rpm will be a long, tedious process. Which is > understandable. > > But changing the default PATH that's compiled into bash should be a simpler > change to push through; I see very low risk of any breakage or regressions; > and it will probably solve a great majority of the resulting foobarage that > cascades downstream into rpm-land. > > Making rpm a bit smarter is certainly a correct fix, but something else can > also be done relatively quickly to take care of most of the current fallout. Well, yeah. But the Law of unintended consequences applies, so we must be careful. I don't think that people expected symlinking /usr/bin to /bin to be risky either. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
