Eric Valette <eric.vale...@free.fr> writes: > If it is just to close once for all the right location philosophical > debate, I would say it will be over priced: changing executable PATH > will just breaks million scripts people have written themselves on top > of original debian install to maintain their system or do whatever their > system is really needed for. System admins do like using absolute path > for security reasons...
I'm confused why you think anything will break. There would obviously be symlinks, so anything that's currently in /bin will continue to work if invoked with an absolute /bin path. Just as another reality check: I believe Red Hat has already done this. Lots of people use Red Hat and derivatives, and there doesn't seem to have been that much breakage. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>