Supporting third party software in /usr/local

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 03:36 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> >>  * Actually I'm not even sure regular $PATH includes /usr/local/bin, but
> >>    maybe that was some other distro ...
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin is in my path - if a distro does not include it, it is
> > imho a bug.
> 
> It's there, but it comes after /bin and /usr/bin, making it
> useless for people who install replacement versions of vendor
> packages.

It should come after /bin and /usr/bin - system installed administration
scripts may expect behavior specific to the version installed with the
system.

A user can re-arrange the path if they need to - or create an alias if
they need to (probably better).