[arch-dev-public] [RFC] new default PATH

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> On 05/31/2013 04:04 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> When updating our default PATH in /etc/profile due to the usrmerge I
>> noticed it is not consistent with the system-wide PATH set by PID1.
>>
>> systemd sets:
>>
>> "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
>>
>> which for us is equivalent to
>>
>> "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
>>
>> but profile used to set:
>>
>> "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
>>
>> which for us is equivalent to
>>
>> "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
>>
>>
>> For consistency I changed (in testing) the path set in /etc/profile to
>>
>> "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
>>
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
> will be made the symlink for sbin -> bin for /usr/local ?

I think we should eventually, but we are not doing it at the moment
(and a few people object to it). My plan was to write an RFC for that
once the current transition has finished.

-t