Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

From	Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.programmer
Subject	Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date	2025-01-16 00:03 +0100
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On 15.01.2025 20:19, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> writes:
>>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> writes:
>>>>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>>>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> writes:
>>>>>>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]

> The PDP-11 can be rationally compared with the situation of the OP,
> namely, doing local filesystem operations on a single computer. [...]

Since you're referring to me, the OP, please note that most arguments
here have quickly made a relation to a straw man (a performance theme)
or made other deviations from the basic question(s) that concerned me.

Essentially there were two questions I had that I can reformulate in a
more compact form as

  "Why, in the first place, are all these path components
   part of the default PATH for ordinary users? - Is there
   any [functional] rationale or necessity for that?"

  "_If_ many of the default PATH components are unnecessary,
   where and how to best reduce these settings to a sensible
   subset? - Without spoiling the system, of course."

But we've seen mostly only statements maneuvering around the questions.

Please don't take that hint as offense, I just think it may be time to
put it on track again. - Thanks.

Janis

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Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-14 11:14 +0100
  Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-01-14 13:55 +0000
  Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-14 17:16 +0000
    Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-14 17:22 +0000
      Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-14 17:59 +0000
      Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-14 19:23 +0000
        Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-14 22:17 +0000
          Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-01-14 23:24 +0000
          Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-15 15:38 +0000
            Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-15 15:52 +0000
              Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-15 19:19 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-16 00:03 +0100
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-15 23:14 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-19 13:50 +0100
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-01-15 23:26 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-16 11:51 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-19 14:10 +0100
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-19 20:36 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-19 15:55 -0800
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-16 17:01 +0000
                Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2025-01-16 19:07 +0000

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