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Hmm, I haven’t run this experiment myself but I have in the past faced problems overriding default python/ruby commands in PATH that caused some stuff to fail and had to add some specific overrides for `brew` command, for example.

> Basically software will either use absolute paths

I’ve personally written scripts that break this assumption (that’s a me problem, I guess) so I am quite sure there’s a lot of scripts at the very least that do this.

Nevertheless, you’ve given me something to consider.



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