"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:18 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
>> > "Because I don't wanna play by the rules!" is not a rationale. So you have
>> > to specify a path -- so what? The way things stand at the moment, if I
>> > were
>> > to drop a gettext.sh in my ~/bin (which is quite likely, except that I
>> > don't
>> > like to put a .sh on my helper scripts) your shell scripts would suddenly
>> > go
>> > tits-up in a most unpleasant fashion. Personally, *that* would be enough
>> > to
>> > make me want to hardcode the path.
> [...]
>> That is why you normaly have ~/bin last in PATH.
>
> Not if you're using Debian's default install of bash you don't
> (admittedly they're commented out by default, but...):
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> fi
>
> More to the point, putting ~/bin last in PATH breaks most of the reasons
> for having it there in the first place (being able to override
> system-installed versions).
>
> Adam
I usualy use it to install software that isn't avilable system wide.
MfG
Goswin
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