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[Mageia-dev] ANN: shadow-utils & util-linux with new default paths in testing

+ Colin Guthrie + mageia at colin.guthr.ie +
+ Wed Nov 21 01:59:43 CET 2012 +

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'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 21/11/12 00:35 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 11/20/2012 11:43 PM, Luc Menut wrote:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> Following my proposal to fix and unify default paths after UsrMove
+>>   http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-November/019931.html
+>> I pushed in cauldron core/updates_testing shadows-utils-4.1.5.1-2 and
+>> util-linux-2.22.1-7 using these default paths:
+>>   PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for normal user,
+>>   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for root.
+>>
+> 
+> Mmmm, this is a discussion I always had with my sysadmin at work...
+> Do you really want that a binary in local can oerride one in system ?
+> Should not local paths be after system ones ?
+
+
+While I personally tend to just make updated packages, one of the
+reasons I thought people used /usr/local was to install newer/patched
+versions of system provided binaries... thus what would be the point in
+favouring the system paths over the local paths?
+
+Col
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