[desktop-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu

[Darren Kenny]

I really would like the ability to have the default path set in a file 
somewhere - we could have this in /etc/profile or /etc/login for example 
as it stands...

The getusershell function (and /etc/shells file)  is a good example of 
how this kind of functionality could be done, but using paths instead - 
login apps would need modification to support this, but it would go a 
long way to solving the PATH-hell that people always complain about on 
Solaris.

Thanks,

Darren.

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> Failing that work, the documentation should be in a place that will be
>>> immediately available.  One of the biggest problems we've found with
>>> /usr/sfw is that hardly anyone knows it exists or can find it.  If man
>>> pages were available for utilities that specified their paths, those
>>> utilities would be findable (at least, so the theory goes).
>>
>> ... but the same issue applies to /usr/openwin, /usr/dt and /usr/X11, so
>> this shouldn't be a showstopper.
>
> The desktop login programs have traditionally set MANPATH in desktop 
> sessions
> to include /usr/openwin & /usr/dt - which isn't the right solution (a 
> default
> man path configured in a system wide file like the BSD's would be 
> better), but
> is the way these were handled in the past.
>