Bug 27735 – Add ~/bin to PATH

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Luke-Jr 2003-09-01 14:29:57 UTC]

~/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:

[Comment 1 Rob Davies 2003-09-08 12:30:24 UTC]

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. 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 15:16:50 UTC]

or the user can add to .bash_profile:

--
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"
--

[Comment 3 Luke-Jr 2003-10-13 16:00:18 UTC]

The user could add the entire PATH in their profile, too. ~/bin should be
a default.