Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Which means that if you put /usr/xpg4/bin before other paths in your PATH,
> you'll totally break such systems, because now you get the (inferior)
> tools in xpg4 before the preferred tools in /usr/local. Or - this also
> happens - people end up installing their own versions in $HOME/bin,
> because the system admin is uncaring or incompetent.
The build allows you to define SANE_TOOL_PATH ("the tools found in here
are saner than the ones in /usr/bin or /bin" is what it means) and we
insert it just in front of /usr/bin or /bin in the original PATH (see
git_brokne_path_fix in git-sh-setup.sh).
I would call this the right thing (TM) or the best workaround we could do
under the constraints, depending on the mood.
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