.local/bin/env created by installer may conflict with /usr/bin/env

Summary

Hello

Installer script of uv creates .local/bin/env file, and adds .local/bin to the PATH as first directory. Tools which are attempting to find executable by looking for the name of program in every directory listed in PATH may try to execute .local/bin/env instead of /usr/bin/env tool. Shells like bash are probably smart enough to skip non-executable files; but other tools may try to execute any file with matched name.

I had this issue with SLURM workload manager, when I attempted to start slurm job with 'env' to print environment variables, and it attempted to use .local/bin/env:

$ srun env
[2026-04-16] error: execve(): /home/username/.local/bin/env: Permission denied

What do you think, will it be possible to redesign that solution to prevent the conflict?

Platform

Ubuntu 24.04

Version

uv 0.9.28

Python version

Python 3.12.12