On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:44:07PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:54:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change > > > anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains: > > > > I have to relate my latest thing. i'm heading out for a three week > > trip and need to work on the road :(. So that means I get a new laptop > > :) but that means I have to get myself a good working copy of /home > > for use on the road, along with configure unison (I know there are > > other solutions, but its the one that works right now). > > > > Wow, what an experience. my /home is a freaking *mess*. i compare it > > to joey hess' neatly arranged /home as described in his article on > > subversion and /home. This little tip you've mentioned shows the value > > of these things. If I was more organized, I wouldn't have stuff > > splattered all over the place and things like modifying $PATH wouldn't > > need to be considered. They'd just work. > > I like using default settings as much as possible and I very much like > Debian because I frequently find such sane default settings for my daily > needs. I agree completely, but the hard part is finding out what the default settings are. Without spending time reading every initscript, reading every man page to find out how a process is started (though man bash is always a great read) etc, one ends up in my position... a victim of splatter. But learning is a great process... A
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