From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does git belong in root's $PATH?
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:40:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C02725.2020702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C0025A.9080406@op5.se>
Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> Not including /usr/local/{bin,sbin} in root's path is considered wise,
> since, historically, that's where users would install their own versions
> of programs that the system doesn't provide. This use has largely been
> obsoleted by $HOME/bin as the default for user-specific programs, mainly
> because of disks getting larger and cheaper.
>
Hmmm... I think that was /usr/bin (hence the eventual migration of the
meaning of /usr from what was originally the equivalent of /home.)
Today /usr/local is strictly a location for site-local things; a place
that won't conflict with the distribution.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-07 17:21 Does git belong in root's $PATH? walt
2006-01-07 18:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-07 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-08 0:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-08 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-08 1:22 ` walt
2006-01-08 3:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-07 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 23:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
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