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From: Jakob Hirsch <jh@plonk.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:55:30 +0000
Subject: Re: exim4
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Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:

>>I've wondered about that myself. If the binaries are installed somewhere
>>in $PATH, wouldn't that provide sufficient method for finding them?
> I would prefer for security reasons not to start parsing environment
> variables. 

Sounds sensible, but mlmmj uses execvp, which uses PATH itself, so why 
should you have to parse that yourself?
Another possibility would be to use a hard coded path from configure or 
some header file.

 > Besides, with this method, you can have many mlmmj
> installations in parallel.

mlmmj uses no config file, so what's the use? Having different versions 
of mlmmj running? That should be done with configure's --program-suffix. 
Otherwise you end up having a directory for every mlmmj installation.