[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#395890: Intent to remove /usr/bin/X11 from PATH in /etc/login.defs

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:07:38 +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

> On su, 2007-04-15 at 19:33 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Are there any objections to us changing this setting in the default
> > /etc/login.defs file?
> 
> liw at dorfl$ ls -ld /usr/bin/X11
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-04-12 21:08 /usr/bin/X11 -> .
> 
> Anything found via /usr/bin/X11 will be found via /usr/bin, so I don't
> see any problem with removing /usr/bin/X11 from PATH. At least on new
> installations -- will the symlink happen like that even on systems
> upgraded from previous Debian releases?
> 
Yes, this symlink is part of the x11-common package.

Cheers,
Julien
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