scripsit Paul E Condon: > For someone who already understands what PATH is and has well formed > ideas as to how he wants to work, it is easy to change. Debian, or any > other OS, would have a hard time stopping you. It so easy to change, > for the skilled user, that it is hard to argue that it should be set > in a way that saves him a few dozen key strokes each time he does a > new install, and also makes the first experience of even one newbie > painful. OK, I don't think we're realy disagreeing here. I misunderstood you to be arguing that the OS should _prevent_ me from being able to put my /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin at the front of my PATH. So long as I (when root) can set system defaults and I (when a normal user) can set my user environment, go to it! ;)
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