~/bin should be added to the default PATH set in /etc/profile Adding ~/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ~/include to the include path variables might also be worth consideration. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
The administrator can already alter /etc/env.d/00basic and run env-update if they want merely to add ~/bin to $PATH. Unfortunately /etc/profile, prefixes /bin and /usr/bin to the PATH value set in /etc/profile.env rather than append, so it's unlikely that a user will gain the benefit they hope for (it would be useful for example to select distcc usage or ccache, without extending paths by using a script in /usr/local/bin or ~/bin). A more convenient solution for site specific customisation, would be to check for existance of an /etc/profile.local scripts, at end of profile, so customisations can be maintained seperately from the ebuild's. Then the PATH ordering can easily be over-ridden by the administrator, and $HOME/bin can be added to $PATH only if it exists. Even better would be to extend the /etc/env.d/ to support a site directory, so the same env-update processing which produces profile.env for bash and csh shells, could be re-used for local customisations.
or the user can add to .bash_profile: -- export PATH="~/bin:$PATH" --
The user could add the entire PATH in their profile, too. ~/bin should be a default.
