>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PJ> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Matthew Simmons wrote:
>> Nobody finds them, because they're out of the way.
>>
>> It's also an annoyance for administrators, because they have to add yet
>> another directory to their PATH.
>>
>> Much better to put the new feature right in their path, so to speak,
>> than to make them have to take positive action just to find it.
PJ> Why can't this be done with an appropriate /etc/profile?
It could be done in any one of a thousand ways. I'm not going to argue the
merits of each. I'm merely explaining why people didn't like /usr/proc/bin,
and why we ended up folding it all back into /usr/bin.
Matt
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