Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at Sun.COM> wrote:
> My reason for preferring /usr/bin unless there's a name conflict is
> simply this : if users cannot readily find a command, they implicitly
> assume it isn't available. There is basically no benefit obtained from
> "hiding" commands in strange places around the system; once a user
> discovers he needs /usr/wombat/bin once in his path, he adds it - and
> any benefit obtained from sequestering commands there is immediately
> obviated.
The reason why I still have objections against this idea is that
you may like to create a PATH that includes less binaries and thus seems to
me less dabgerous for administrators.
> Note that executables not normally used from the command line (Xorg,
> for example) should _not_ appear in the default path.
This is where I definitely concur!
J?rg
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