On 02 Apr 2015 21:15, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:19:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 02 Apr 2015 10:20, Karel Zak wrote: > > > If I good remember then the reason is that the helpers does not have > > > to be installed in standard PATH. Well, you're author of this thing > > > :-) > > > > i wrote the code to make it a configure option, but the actual behavior predates > > me. i'm interested more in the behavior, not the exact configure option. > > So, the basis question is if we really need to support non-standard > paths for the helpers. IMHO it's unnecessary legacy and I don't see a > problem to drop this feature and require $PATH, and for critical > things like fsck fallback to /sbin if $PATH is undefined. the reason for adding that configure option was to support packages that install both into /bin and /usr/bin. i understand some distros will override those settings of upstream packages, but Gentoo has opted not to since there's no reason at all to force them all into /sbin (and even existing tools in /sbin are pretty pointless). although it mattered more when the code was only searching that list and not $PATH at all. my preference would be just to do execvp() and be done so we can stop these distro bikesheddings (/bin & /usr-merge and such). -mike
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