On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Okay, I'll bite. Why is this _particularly_ unfortunate? The directory isn't
actually "invisible", just hidden.

[snip]
 
Now, if you want to argue that nothing user-writable should be in $PATH by
default, I can maybe see your point
 
For me, it's the intersection of the two -- the point that it's hidden *and* user-writable *and* comes earlier in the path than the system directories.  Speaking only for myself, I could probably hold my nose and be OK with any one of those things in isolation, but put them all together, and it starts to smell funny.

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Jared Smith