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

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 02:57:32 CET 2012


On 21 November 2012 01:59, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>   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?

OS (aka distro) stuff vs manually installed stuff (auto* defaulting to
/usr/local).


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