Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> writes: > On Nov 19, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
>> GNU R has long been relying on sed, tar, bzip2, ... and many more base >> tools. No issues there. Generally looked for in /bin and found there. > Actually this is the root problem: policy says that packages should use > the $PATH to search for commands, but your package (like many others) > hardcodes their full path. Policy only says that for maintainer scripts. I agree that it's not a good idea in any location, but I don't believe we've explicitly forbidden it anywhere. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
