OK. Our humble not-yet-a-developer-due-to-new-maint-reorg, having finished exams, packs up and drives home for the holiday. So I get back, relax for a while, do non-computer stuff, etc etc. about 1:30 AM I decide to fetch my email. Hmm. 61 messages. Either I've just become incredibly popular, or they're bickering about something on debian-devel again. Sure enough...
Greg Stark writes: > /etc/profile currently sets the PATH to: > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" > It should include /usr/sbin and /sbin in the PATH. Now, you'd have to be pretty thick not to expect a flamewar here. Sure enough, 21 followups. And I was not even gone for a *day*. I decided to delete them all without looking... Honestly, I think this collective behaviour is really begging the question. *What* in the world is so important about our distribution's default setting on an issue of strictly convenience? put PATH=whatever in your .profile and be done with it. Besides, Greg, my shell is /usr/bin/rc; you'll have to change /etc/login.defs and/or /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config instead. Assuming, of course, my .rcrc doesn't just set $path. ;-) It reminds me of the big debate about nicing cron jobs, and whatever preceded that one, and so on. I really don't give a crap what the default setting of XYZ is in Debian, because if I have some odd need or perverse preference, i'll change the setting. I don't want to turn this into a RedHat flame-fest, but if you want RedHat, you know where to get it. I don't think Greg is maliciously (or humorously) trying to troll us, but we're feeding him nonetheless. It looks stupid and juvenile to outsiders. And when people who subscribe to -devel to try to get *information* have to constantly filter out this stuff, it eventually makes them fed up (say, to the point where they write some rant to -project). As for the "issue", yes, I think sbin is stupid, but i'd go to the FHS people if i was on a campaign to change it. *sigh*. -- Decklin Written with Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/