Supporting third party software in /usr/local

[Bernardo Innocenti]

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.

I use this workaround in my /etc/profile.d/zzz_profile.sh:

 # reorder local
 PATH=/usr/local/bin:`echo $PATH | sed -e 's,:*/usr/local/bin,,g' -e 's,:*/usr/local/sbin,,g'`
 test "$UID" = 0 && PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

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