Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:40:05PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jochen Voss wrote: >>> >>> > [...] >>> > My question: does anybody have further references for the question >>> > whether it is ok or maybe even preferable to install non-programs in >>> > /usr/bin? >>> >>> You forgot to quote last thing I said when closing the bug. >>> >>> So I'll repeat: Please read the logs for non-bug Bug#292759, where the >>> author explains the rationale for putting gettext.sh in /usr/bin. >> >> "Because I don't wanna play by the rules!" is not a rationale. So you have >> to specify a path -- so what? The way things stand at the moment, if I were >> to drop a gettext.sh in my ~/bin (which is quite likely, except that I don't >> like to put a .sh on my helper scripts) your shell scripts would suddenly go >> tits-up in a most unpleasant fashion. Personally, *that* would be enough to >> make me want to hardcode the path. >> >> - Matt > > That is why you normaly have ~/bin last in PATH. > Well, maybe I am not normal ;), but I put it first in PATH, with the same rationale /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin (i.e. to be able to override distribution supplied software with locally-installed versions).
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