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

Jan Claeys lists at janc.be
Sat May 12 19:22:49 UTC 2007


Op dinsdag 08-05-2007 om 21:42 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Fergal
Daly:
> I'm looking for clarification of policy in the context of this bug
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/71336
> 
> and the fact that having your own version of Perl in /usr/local will
> almost certainly break your Ubuntu admin tools.

Is there anybody who knows why
 
        PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

is defined locally in that udev script, and not somewhere in a central
place?  That seems completely wrong to me...


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Jan Claeys





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