[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#661519: General solution for name space pollution issues

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 13:42:38 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> For the moment I would like to draw your attention to the
> other part of the solution I would like to suggest:
> 
> Tweaking the PATH for Debian Med users:
> 
>   1. Make paml  Depends: med-config
>   2. Let med-config drop a script in /etc/profile.d which
>      sets PATH="/usr/lib/debian-med/bin:$PATH"
>      if debconf question "Do you want to prefer Debian Med
>      executables prefered over other ones <bla bla - give
>      reasons + warning>"
> 
> So if the local admin answers this question with yes all original
> executable names will be restored fully transparently for the user.  I
> would like to implement this before the Freeze and we should try to
> update as much relevant packages as possible following this scheme.
> 
> Perhaps it makes sense to find a common way what symlinks / wrapper
> to use in /usr/bin but this is a separate decision which is somehow
> orthogonal to the solution to move all name space pollution affected
> executables to /usr/lib/debian-med/bin.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
I think it's both overengineered and not an acceptable solution, fwiw.

Cheers,
Julien