On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:37:39AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:54:38PM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > As it is possible for users to do useful things with the > > update-alternatives program ( --display etc. ), it should be in > > /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin. > > I agree. Not having it in $PATH means my shell will take some typing > before it autocompletes it, and we all know excess typing is a bad > thing ;)
I certainly have some sympathy with this bug report, but we should be careful to check for buggy maintainer scripts that hardcode the location of update-alternatives (rather than prepending /usr/sbin:/sbin to $PATH and just running it that way) before changing it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
