Re: Updating the PATH for /opt/<package>/bin

Michael Stone <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:32:05 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.lsb.discuss
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:15:16PM -0600, Bart Whiteley wrote:
>Why are you opposed to letting the package do this in 
>post-install?

1) don't want a 15 line path (should *every* program get to add its own
path?)
2) don't trust the program to munge the path properly (there's a lot of
ways I can set my path, and I'll bet you can't predict all of them :)

Mike Stone