Re: shell script sniplets in /usr/bin?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Adam D. Barratt" <highvol-debian-devel@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:18 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> 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