Bug#567033: Decide if we should continue recommending /usr/games
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 02:38:14PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2023-09-11 11:25:34, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> I get the argument against bad binaries not being in PATH but we have
> >> some tooling for that, don't we? /usr/libexec, no?
> >
> > /usr/libexec isn't a replacement because it's not on any user's PATH.
> > /usr/games is intended to be added to a regular user's path but not
> > root's, which is a distinct use case.
>
> That's an odd argument to make: /usr/games isn't on any user's PATH
> either, is it?
% grep games /etc/profile /etc/login.defs
/etc/profile: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
/etc/login.defs:ENV_PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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