Re: [arch-projects] [namcap] [PATCH 5/5] Fix shebangdepends rule for programs found in noncanonical locations

Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> writes:

FWIW a lot of software will break if you do this, not just namcap. There's an exceedingly good reason why /usr/sbin and other symlink directories are *not* added to the $PATH on archlinux, unless the user has unwisely added it by hand.

FWIW, in my case I added it to my .profile so that it worked on other distributions too, without requiring fancy logic such as checking distro or filesystem layout. That was several years ago, and this is the first problem I noticed so far.