On 06/22/2012 01:45 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Andrew Haley writes: > >> 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. > > Errr… Wait. Then UsrMove script that ran when I upgraded F16 to F17 > symlinked /bin → usr/bin > > If new F17 installs have /usr/bin → /bin, then this is an even bigger > clusterfrak. It doesn't. Don't worry. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
