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by andreineculau 510 days ago
You've got nothing to worry

Been doing it for more than a decade and yet to get in trouble. Not one issue. Doing it consistently for my teams as we decrease cognitive load (developing on macs but targeting unix). Others would confirm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17943202

Basically software will either use absolute paths i.e. wants to use your OS version for a dependency like grep, or will use whatever grep is in your $PATH and stick to safe invocations regardless if it's BSD/GNU or if it's version x or y
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sangeeth96 510 days ago
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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