base-files: prefer /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin

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Fix #15781

[Hoshpak]

why?

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On 2019-10-25 07:41:43 +0000, Helmut Pozimski wrote: why?

Convention? We usually expect to run the binary in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin if there're binary with same name in both location. The intend's shown in the old profile code, i.e. we append /usr/local/bin to PATH before appending /usr/bin. But, both /bin and /usr/bin is existed in PATH before sourcing /etc/profile, then the unintentional effect. I would like to go as far as: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH

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-- Danh

[Chocimier]

I see proposed solution changed. But prepending usual paths to what was set before fit neither need of preserving variable nor need of setting clean one.
I would just go back to setting clean path, this is what eg. Debian does. Without this, there are too many different defaults, like login(1), graphical DMs, sshd. All are wrong i some way: no local, symlink before real dir an so on.

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On 2019-11-12 12:35:17 -0800, Piotr wrote: I see proposed solution changed. But prepending *usual* paths to what was set before fit neither need of preserving variable nor need of setting clean one. I would just go back to setting clean path, this is what eg. Debian does. Without this, there are too many different defaults, like login(1), graphical DMs, sshd. All are wrong i some way: no local, symlink before real dir an so on.

Yes, I'm strongly in favour of just setting PATH to a clean variable. Whoever, for whatever reason, wants to add anything into PATH, should do it themselves in their user's .{,z,bash_}profile or .{bash_,ksh,zsh}rc or add a source file into /etc/profile.d I thought about spliting PATH in /etc/profile and append to clean PATH. But it have too many problems, e.g. user PATH priority when starting with tmux. Just reset to clean variable and let user do it themselves.

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-- Danh