----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondr...@redhat.com> > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:46:12 PM > Subject: Re: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH > > > > Dne 2.5.2018 v 16:35 Siteshwar Vashisht napsal(a): > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Tomas Orsava" <tors...@redhat.com> > >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > >> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>, "David Kaspar" <dkas...@redhat.com>, > >> "Kamil Dudka" <kdu...@redhat.com>, "Miro Hrončok" <mhron...@redhat.com>, > >> "Petr Viktorin" <pvikt...@redhat.com>, > >> "Siteshwar Vashisht" <svash...@redhat.com> > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:23:10 PM > >> Subject: Prioritizing ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin on the PATH > >> > >> Hi! > >> I'd like to propose putting the ~/.local/bin in front of the /usr/bin on > >> the PATH. > >> > >> Currently /usr/bin has priority over ~/.local/bin, which causes a [bug] > >> where the old system-installed executable written in Python (from > >> /usr/bin) is launched, but it finds new Python sources (installed into > >> $HOME) which it doesn't work with and crashes. > >> > >> [bug] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571650 > >> > >> I believe the current configuration breaks the intuitive expectation > >> that things installed closer to the user should take priority. That's > >> for example how it works with Python. > >> Interestingly, ubuntu and opensuse do not have ~/.local/bin on their > >> PATH (though Ubuntu has ~/bin) so we can't take guidance there. > >> > >> Does anyone see a reason not to prioritize ~/.local/bin over /usr/bin? > > Most of the discussion in this thread focuses on security rather than sane > > behavior. It is going to be a system wide change. An application may get > > affected if it depends on system provided utilites which gets overridden > > by ~/.local/bin. > > > > For e.g. > > > >> cat /bin/foo > > #!/bin/bash > > ls -l > >> cat ~/.local/bin/ls > > #!/bin/bash > > echo "Strange world!" > >> /bin/foo > > Strange world! > > > > So this change breaks something that is outside user's installation. This > > should happen only if a user has explicitly overriden $PATH to prioritize > > user installation paths. > > User explicitly installed SW into his home directory. Why (s)he needs to > override the $PATH in addition to make the SW work?
Users should be aware too that there are 2 different versions of the same utility on their system. And they should be explicit about not using system provided one. > > Vít > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- -- Siteshwar Vashisht _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
