Andrew Haley writes:

On 06/22/2012 01:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Andrew Haley writes:
>
>> > Why not take /bin and /sbin out of the default path *and* make sure
>> > that RPM knows about /bin/* ?
> I would expect that changing rpm will be a long, tedious process. Which is
> understandable.
>
> But changing the default PATH that's compiled into bash should be a simpler
> change to push through; I see very low risk of any breakage or regressions;
> and it will probably solve a great majority of the resulting foobarage that
> cascades downstream into rpm-land.
>
> Making rpm a bit smarter is certainly a correct fix, but something else can
> also be done relatively quickly to take care of most of the current fallout.

Well, yeah.  But the Law of unintended consequences applies, so we
must be careful.  I don't think that people expected symlinking
/usr/bin to /bin to be risky either.

Errr… Wait. Then UsrMove script that ran when I upgraded F16 to F17 symlinked /bin → usr/bin

If new F17 installs have /usr/bin → /bin, then this is an even bigger clusterfrak. If that's the case, bash should be left alone, as doing that is going to break all the new installs.

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