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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:07:44 +0000
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antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:

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> On my Debian system PATH is:
>
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>
> '/bin' is a symlink to '/usr/bin', so AFAICS '/bin' could be
> safely removed from the path.  '/usr/local/games' and
> '/usr/games' are empty and I do not intend to put anything
> there,

Games packaged by Debian will usually install their binaries/ programs
in /usr/games. For as long as you don't actually install any games,
/usr/games sitting at the end of the path will have no effect except
increasing the time until a "command not found" error is displayed by an
immeasurably small amount.