[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Apr 27 02:58:41 UTC 2007


Michael E Brown (Michael_E_Brown at dell.com) said: 
> The biggest issue I see with any bin64 issue is that you have a *huge*
> installed base of legacy software (and legacy software developers) who
> just assume that you can set a clean PATH to /usr/bin:/bin, and possibly
> /usr/sbin:/sbin. Lots of security-conscious software will do things like
> reset the PATH.
> 
> Now all of a sudden, that no longer works. You have to either trust that
> PATH isnt set maliciously, or you have to know the arch you are on and
> that arch's specific peculariarities: prefer bin32 or bin64? etc.
> 
> This sounds like a lot of pain and agony for lots of people and
> third-party software.

Moreover, you move which binary you want to prefer from a packaging
and installer issue to a global path ordering issue and the creation
of wrappers.

It's just dumb.

Bill




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