Subject: Re: Bug#3290: (no subject)

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 08:31:34 +0200

On Jul 18,  3:34pm, Jeff Prothero wrote:
} Subject: Bug#3290: (no subject)
} | The default PATH for non-superuser programs everywhere should be
} | /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
} How about /usr/bin/X11:/usr/games ?  Debian seems to like to
} install tf in the latter, which puzzles users who don't have
} /usr/games on their path...

I'm not sure this is a good idea, X and games are optional parts of the
system and don't need to be in the default path (by the way, it should
be /usr/X11R6/bin, not /usr/bin/X).

For users and other scripts, it's simple enough to have something like
that in /etc/profile or whatever:

	PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games

or even

	for d in /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/games
	do
	    if [ -d "$d" ]
	    then
	 	PATH=${PATH}:"$d"
	    fi
	done

so that the path is correctly setup given the actual configuration of
the system.

Yves.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 96 22:41 BST

Yves Arrouye writes ("Re: Bug#3290: (no subject)"):
> [...] (by the way, it should  be /usr/X11R6/bin, not /usr/bin/X).

No, it should be /usr/bin/X11.  This is to that when we have X11R7 it
will work correctly.

Ian.