On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:54:58AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:17, Paul Vojta wrote: > > > > Being able to set the PATH for dpkg might be considered > > > > a feature, not a bug. > > > > > > Only if it's done intentionally. > > > E.g.: bash% DPKG_PATH=... dpkg -i foobar.deb > > > > dpkg can't know how the path was set. > > > > Still, I think you are right that the packaging system > > should be able to find its own components when the > > user sets the PATH. > > why does dpkg not use absolute pathnames?
So the admin can control what dpkg calls. Also, maintainer scripts don't hard-code paths.
