/usr/local/bin in $PATH in system scripts?

[Fergal Daly]

On 09/05/07, Soren Hansen <sh at linux2go.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:43:29AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > > "However, because /usr/local and its contents are for exclusive use
> > > of the local administrator, a package must not rely on the presence
> > > or absence of files or directories in /usr/local for normal
> > > operation."
> > how does that even remotely relate to your complaint ? the package
> > itself just uses the default system paths and obviously doesnt *rely*
> > on anything in /usr/local apparently ...
>
> No, but it *does* rely on the *absence* of a b0rken perl interpreter
> there.

Yes. Although there's nothing broken about it, it's just a vanilla
perl install and that means it doesn't have certain modules relating
to DBus or gnome or whatever (I can't remember the exact error),

F

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