[gentoo-dev] /{"",usr/}bin path changed. What is the right solution for scripts?

[Peter Volkov]

Hello.

Path of some utilities in coreutils-6.7-r1 changed from /usr/bin to /bin
and vice versa. This cause some scripts became broken as they relied on
the full path to executable. The question is: does there exist best
practice on how to avoid this problem in future? Should we set some
default PATH in scripts or should we call "command -p program"? Or as
this is mainly problem for scripts that work in cron we should suggest
users to set PATH in crontab? Or may be we should fix coreutils to
create all possible symlinks?

TIA,
-- 
Peter.