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<H1>[Mageia-dev] ANN: shadow-utils & util-linux with new default paths in testing</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] ANN: shadow-utils & util-linux with new default paths in testing">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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<I>Wed Nov 21 02:57:32 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 21 November 2012 01:59, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
>>><i> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for normal user,
</I>>>><i> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for root.
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</I>>><i> Mmmm, this is a discussion I always had with my sysadmin at work...
</I>>><i> Do you really want that a binary in local can oerride one in system ?
</I>>><i> Should not local paths be after system ones ?
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</I>><i> While I personally tend to just make updated packages, one of the
</I>><i> reasons I thought people used /usr/local was to install newer/patched
</I>><i> versions of system provided binaries... thus what would be the point in
</I>><i> favouring the system paths over the local paths?
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OS (aka distro) stuff vs manually installed stuff (auto* defaulting to
/usr/local).
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