From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Does git belong in root's $PATH? Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:40:05 -0800 Message-ID: <43C02725.2020702@zytor.com> References: <43C0025A.9080406@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: walt , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 07 21:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EvKrO-00044i-RB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:40:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161095AbWAGUkN (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:40:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161101AbWAGUkN (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:40:13 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:31407 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161095AbWAGUkL (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:40:11 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k07Ke5P5008894 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:40:06 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Andreas Ericsson In-Reply-To: <43C0025A.9080406@op5.se> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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