As an end user, then, you should add ~/bin/ to your path from within .bashrc, rather than .bash_profile. It has long been historical practice for xterms and the like not to spawn login shells by default. For this reason, people have for many years followed the practice of placing anything important in the rc file, and sourcing the rc file from within their profile. The only other things that should go in a profile are things specific to login shells... things that ought to be followed for _every_ interactive shell, belong in the rc file (that's the rc file's purpose). These bugs are nothing more than a matter of confusion on the user's part for what purposes are served by the *rc and *profile files that a typical shell program supports.
-- newly opened gnome-terminal windows don't have .bash_profile sourced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
