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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] ANN: shadow-utils &amp; util-linux with new default paths in testing</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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    <I>Wed Nov 21 01:59:43 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and JA Magall&#243;n at 21/11/12 00:35 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On 11/20/2012 11:43 PM, Luc Menut wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hi,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Following my proposal to fix and unify default paths after UsrMove
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>   <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-November/019931.html">http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-November/019931.html</A>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I pushed in cauldron core/updates_testing shadows-utils-4.1.5.1-2 and
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> util-linux-2.22.1-7 using these default paths:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>   PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for normal user,
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for root.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Mmmm, this is a discussion I always had with my sysadmin at work...
</I>&gt;<i> Do you really want that a binary in local can oerride one in system ?
</I>&gt;<i> Should not local paths be after system ones ?
</I>

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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