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Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH



Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> [I'm not sure this thread is going anywhere much, but I'd just like to
> interject here]

Probably not, and I'll shut up now because I really don't care either
way.  Though I do think that the current division is in places sorta
arbitrary.

> It does buy you something.  I don't know how important you think it
> is, but it's something.  By separating out programs like that, when
> you hit <TAB> to complete a program name, it won't complete to some
> completely inappropriate things, because they're not in the PATH>

This doesn't really carry any weight with me, but I suppose it's
important for some.

-- 
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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