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

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Robert,

That's a good idea, I'll put that in my list of things to update.

Regards, Stuart

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:29 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   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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