Re: sh(1) and ksh(1) default PATH

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:56:02 +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 08:59:13AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
>  > But the argument "if something is modified, that"s the problem of the
>  > user" can be reversed: NetBSD provides utilities whose
>  > functionnalities it relies upon. So, by default, the system should use
>  > its utilities, the ones it has been tested with and expects. So base
>  > should always come first by default; [...]
> 
> Except that the whole reason for installing e.g. bind or sendmail from
> pkgsrc is to replace the corresponding functionality in base.

Bad example -- neither will (have to) be in PATH. And sendmail is even 
special-cased by mailer.conf.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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