On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:29:08 +0200 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 16:43:02 +0300, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> > Just out of curiousity, why does it look in /usr/local at all? I feel dirty
> > and insecure when my package management software uses /usr/local.
>
> /usr/local is owner by root:staff, it's most of the time included in
> PATH, so if something nasty landed there, you probably have bigger
> issues anyway. Most of your system might be looking there too. And
> it's just a way to allow the sysadmin to override things, w/o needing
> to mess with the installed files.
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem
>
Nice job with th symlink fix, I have got to have my dselect :)

Thank you Aleksi.


Adrian

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