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[Ltib] skell-1.13 should have a slightly different PATH in /etc/profile


From: Robert P. J. Day
Subject: [Ltib] skell-1.13 should have a slightly different PATH in /etc/profile
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:29:42 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)

  i just noticed the contents of /etc/profile in skell-1.13 regarding
the default search path:

  PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

the problem with this path is that it doesn't give users the freedom
to override some of the standard system utilities with any of their
locally-written ones since /usr/local/bin is at the end.

  a more flexible choice would be:

  PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

which keeps the system utilities at the front, but allows installation
of alternates in /usr/local/bin to override standard programs.  not a
big deal, of course, but the second PATH would be more in line with
what you'd find in common linux distros.

rday
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