Bug#412074: Bug#423178: gnome-panel: time-admin applet called without gksu

[Otavio Salvador]

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Well I think it's better to avoid possible mistakes due a user writing
>> something with gksu on /usr/local/{s,}bin/ and having trouble to get
>> gnome to work.
>
> No, if I as an admin of a machine create a gksu in /usr/local/bin, I
> want it to be *used*. This is why /usr/local/bin is in the path.
>
> Please *never* hardcode paths to any executables in the path. There are
> too many reasons why hardcoded paths are a bad idea to explain them all
> in this bug report, but I'll point out the recent grub fun as one
> example (since you're one of the grub maintainers).

Got it.

>> I always try to avoid those mistakes even more when it's for desktop
>> target users (gnome is).
>
> Nontechnical users rarely write programs in /usr/local/bin.

Ok. I agree :-D

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