Dne 2.5.2018 v 16:35 Siteshwar Vashisht napsal(a): > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tomas Orsava" <torsava@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David Kaspar" <dkaspar@xxxxxxxxxx>, >> "Kamil Dudka" <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Miro Hrončok" <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Petr Viktorin" <pviktori@xxxxxxxxxx>, >> "Siteshwar Vashisht" <svashish@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:23:10 PM >> Subject: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH >> >> Hi! >> I'd like to propose putting the ~/.local/bin in front of the /usr/bin on >> the PATH. >> >> Currently /usr/bin has priority over ~/.local/bin, which causes a [bug] >> where the old system-installed executable written in Python (from >> /usr/bin) is launched, but it finds new Python sources (installed into >> $HOME) which it doesn't work with and crashes. >> >> [bug] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571650 >> >> I believe the current configuration breaks the intuitive expectation >> that things installed closer to the user should take priority. That's >> for example how it works with Python. >> Interestingly, ubuntu and opensuse do not have ~/.local/bin on their >> PATH (though Ubuntu has ~/bin) so we can't take guidance there. >> >> Does anyone see a reason not to prioritize ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin? > Most of the discussion in this thread focuses on security rather than sane behavior. It is going to be a system wide change. An application may get affected if it depends on system provided utilites which gets overridden by ~/.local/bin. > > For e.g. > >> cat /bin/foo > #!/bin/bash > ls -l >> cat ~/.local/bin/ls > #!/bin/bash > echo "Strange world!" >> /bin/foo > Strange world! > > So this change breaks something that is outside user's installation. This should happen only if a user has explicitly overriden $PATH to prioritize user installation paths. User explicitly installed SW into his home directory. Why (s)he needs to override the $PATH in addition to make the SW work? Vít _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
