[Nix-dev] ~/bin in PATH if exists

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:21:26 +0100, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/01/12 17:42, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:32:29PM +0000, Sander van der Burg wrote:
> >> You can also write Nix expressions for these scripts and install them into
> >> your personal Nix profile? I have to admit that this is a little bit of extra
> >> work, but it is also not that difficult either.
> > 
> > I could. But I don't plan to, unless they stop working. :)
> 
> Indeed.  I disagree with the removal of ~/bin from $PATH.  It's useful, it's
> been there for a long time, many other distributions do it as well, and there
> doesn't seem to be a pressing reason to remove it.
> 
> Adding it conditional on whether ~/bin exists is fine.  Ubuntu does that as well.

Sorry for accompanying this discussion with commits. Before your post I
thought I'm the only one opposing the removal, so I reverted my
commit. Now I reverted that revert again and will not touch that corner
except being told to.

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