Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH

From	spp mg <sm.sppmg@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH
Date	2017-08-08 21:20 +0200
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Hi all

In the ~/.profile has below default setting:

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# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
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Why put ~/bin beginning ? Is that dangerous ?

Thanks .

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Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH spp mg <sm.sppmg@gmail.com> - 2017-08-08 21:20 +0200
  Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-08-08 21:40 +0200
  Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH John Elliot V <jj5@jj5.net> - 2017-08-08 21:40 +0200
  Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-08-08 22:10 +0200
    Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH spp mg <sm.sppmg@gmail.com> - 2017-08-08 23:00 +0200
      Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-08-08 23:30 +0200
      Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-08-09 06:50 +0200
        Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-08-09 07:00 +0200
      Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH "Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it> - 2017-08-09 18:20 +0200
        Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-08-09 19:00 +0200
    Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-09 15:20 +0200
  Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH soyeomul@doraji.xyz (Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)) - 2017-08-11 16:00 +0200
  Re: Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2017-08-14 15:30 +0200

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