On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Jon Kent wrote: > Can see your point here, but I prefer to play on the paranoid side of > fence hence my dislike of this. I'm not sure it should be there by > default, rather if you like it you should add it.
Inexperienced users might add it to the beginning of PATH, so having it at the end by default is a reasonable compromise. Anyone with enough experience to know why they want it removed also has enough experience to remove it themselves. Regards, Andrew Dalgleish