Supporting third party software in /usr/local

[Robert Locke]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 19:02 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 03:36 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > 
> > >>  * Actually I'm not even sure regular $PATH includes /usr/local/bin, but
> > >>    maybe that was some other distro ...
> > > 
> > > /usr/local/bin is in my path - if a distro does not include it, it is
> > > imho a bug.
> > 
> > It's there, but it comes after /bin and /usr/bin, making it
> > useless for people who install replacement versions of vendor
> > packages.
> 
> It should come after /bin and /usr/bin - system installed administration
> scripts may expect behavior specific to the version installed with the
> system.
> 
> A user can re-arrange the path if they need to - or create an alias if
> they need to (probably better).
> 

Actually, isn't the default regular user PATH variable hard coded in
to /bin/bash?  And, I believe it is set to
"/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin", at least on FC4, it is.  Then the
scripts modify/replace that.....

--Rob