Bug 677564

Summary:	sys-apps/baselayout-2.6-r1: /etc/profile: Please reconsider ROOTPATH support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	bugs77
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, leho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description bugs77 2019-02-09 16:33:06 UTC

I would like to question dropping support for ROOTPATH completely as reasoned
in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/baselayout.git/commit/?id=9cac4dd130637fa2c1f1a64bf3c9d2509284e6dd.

As a system admin I would like to be given a reasonably easy way to choose whether I want different PATH values for root and users, and what they shall be.
PATH and ROOTPATH should work as it is still described in the Gentoo handbook at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/EnvVar.
To eventually unset ROOTPATH in /etc/profile in order to keep the environment clean makes perfect sense to me, as no other gentoo package should depend on the ROOTPATH environment variable.
Gentoo packages which have to add PATH and ROOTPATH components in /etc/env.d/ should do so selectively.

Thanks for reconsidering.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2020-02-08 17:08:57 UTC

Please read the following article for more information on this issue.

https://www.osnews.com/story/25556/understanding-the-bin-sbin-usrbin-usrsbin-split/

I'm not convinced that there is a valid reason to take *sbin out of the
path.

Thanks,

William

Comment 2 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2020-10-18 12:28:21 UTC

So as of baselayout-2.7, what is the Best Practice now for having sbin items automatically available in `sudo -i`?