'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 21/11/12 00:35 did gyre and gimble: > On 11/20/2012 11:43 PM, Luc Menut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Following my proposal to fix and unify default paths after UsrMove >> http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-November/019931.html >> I pushed in cauldron core/updates_testing shadows-utils-4.1.5.1-2 and >> util-linux-2.22.1-7 using these default paths: >> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for normal user, >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin for root. >> > > Mmmm, this is a discussion I always had with my sysadmin at work... > Do you really want that a binary in local can oerride one in system ? > Should not local paths be after system ones ?
While I personally tend to just make updated packages, one of the reasons I thought people used /usr/local was to install newer/patched versions of system provided binaries... thus what would be the point in favouring the system paths over the local paths? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
