From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /{"",usr/}bin path changed. What is the right solution for scripts?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 16:21:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070401162131.7400cb75@snowflake> (raw)
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On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:15:13 +0400
Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 00:01 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> > One idea that comes to mind is /usr/bin/env $bin
>
> And here we return to the problem that one day /usr/bin/env, could
> become /bin/env... Or that /usr/ sometimes is not mounted during boot.
env not being in /usr/bin will break an awful lot of stuff. It's listed
in many textbooks as being the safe way of doing things.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-01 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-01 6:02 [gentoo-dev] /{"",usr/}bin path changed. What is the right solution for scripts? Peter Volkov
2007-04-01 6:57 ` Christopher Sawtell
2007-04-01 6:57 ` Guillermo A. Amaral
2007-04-01 7:01 ` [gentoo-dev] /{"", usr/}bin " Alec Warner
2007-04-01 7:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-01 9:56 ` [gentoo-dev] /{"",usr/}bin " Roy Marples
2007-04-01 15:15 ` Peter Volkov
2007-04-01 15:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-04-01 15:46 ` [gentoo-dev] /{"", usr/}bin " Alec Warner
2007-04-02 10:42 ` Peter Volkov
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