$PATH and /usr/local/bin !!!!

[trapni]

Hi all,

I'm not really complaining, although I'd rate it as a bug but it really *peep*.

It's usually to have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin and /usr because there are all local binaries stored special for this machine.
This was successfully done on my old SuSE box. But Gentoo enforces the $PATH to have "/bin:/usr/bin" to be definitely the first in the search path. That sucks. since you can't override things located there by default.
Image colorgcc. You've normally gcc placed in /usr/bin and want now all output piped through colorgcc. So you usually create a symlink from /usr/bin/colorgcc to /usr/local/bin/gcc (and g++, and what ever you like). This is okay unless you don't need it. really need it. because /usr/local/bin/gcc gets never called since /usr/bin/gcc is definitely before found.
Okay, I can modify the /etc/profile or /etc/profile.env. But what about suggesting a /etc/profile.local (or /etc/conf.d/profile.local wich gets invoked by /etc/profile after everything system like is done. So that I am the master in /etc/conf.d/profile.local and can then override everything I need.

Thanks,
Christian Parpart.

[delta407]

[trapni]

Why I'm suggesting the file /etc/conf.d/profile.local is because there is more than colorgcc to be invoked at a new session for each user.

e.g. alias ls='ls --color=auto' etc.

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

[trapni]

[delta407]

So then add:

[trapni]

Yeah right. But couldn't we add that feature(!) to the distro it self? (instead of reediting it on each update)?

Thanks,
Christian Parpart.