On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, at 08:58, Pavel Stehule wrote: > It is the same as using the command line without the possibility to customize > the PATH variable. The advantages and disadvantages are exactly the same.
The reason why we even have PATH in the *nix world, is not because they *wanted* to separate things (like we want with schemas or extensions), but because they *needed* to, because /bin was overflowed: "The UNIX shell gave up the Multics idea of a search path and looked for program names that weren’t file names in just one place, /bin. Then in v3 /bin overflowed the small (256K), fast fixed-head drive. Thus was /usr/bin born, and the idea of a search path reinstated." [1] [1] https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf /Joel
