On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 03:36 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> * Actually I'm not even sure regular $PATH includes /usr/local/bin, but
>> maybe that was some other distro ...
>
> /usr/local/bin is in my path - if a distro does not include it, it is
> imho a bug.
It's there, but it comes after /bin and /usr/bin, making it
useless for people who install replacement versions of vendor
packages.
It should come after /bin and /usr/bin - system installed administration
scripts may expect behavior specific to the version installed with the
system.
A user can re-arrange the path if they need to - or create an alias if
they need to (probably better).