On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:28:44PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Jan Tomasek wrote: > > Shame on me! I'm very sorry, I installed TexLive7 and allowed it to place > > links in /usr/local/bin :(( > > > > | semik:~# which install-info > > | /usr/local/bin/install-info > > | semik:~# ls -l /usr/local/bin/install-info > > l rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Oct 16 14:53 >/usr/local/bin/install-info -> /usr/local/TeXLive7/bin/i386-linux/install-info > > Of course this would not be a problem if dpkg would set it's path to > so as to make sure it would run anything outside of /usr/bin /bin etc.... > when running postinstall scripts...
No, that's a design decision. Sometimes you *want* to override things, and if dpkg clobbered your overrides that would be extremely confusing. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
