>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
>> but we know from painful experience that acts of cowardice like
>> /usr/proc/bin create more problems than they solve.
PJ> Curious, what problems other than $PATH would those be?
Nobody finds them, because they're out of the way.
It's also an annoyance for administrators, because they have to add yet another
directory to their PATH.
Much better to put the new feature right in their path, so to speak, than to
make them have to take positive action just to find it.
PJ> The shell PATH issues at least can easily be dealt with with some
PJ> intelligent system profiles (e.g. see /etc/profile.d/ on some linux
PJ> systems).
PJ> It's not too difficult to splice an appropriate PATH together based on
PJ> what is installed to make things easy for users, it's impossible to
PJ> split super-directories though.
PJ> So there must be more to it than just $PATH?
Matt
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