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/etc/profile: do not add ~/bin to $PATH in system-wide init file 

Users who want a user-specific bin directory to override system paths should
configure that in their user-specific ~/.bashrc, not in the system-wide init
file. The global file shouldn't add directories from user homes to $PATH
without knowing whether those actually exist or whether the users even want
them in $PATH. On my system, for example, there is no ~/bin, so I don't want my
$PATH to look for one. Removing an erroneous entry from $PATH is cumbersome,
but adding one is easy, so it feels better to err on the side of caution.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=31188
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Peter Simons 2011-12-31 12:56:45 +00:00
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@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ done
# Search directory for Aspell dictionaries.
export ASPELL_CONF="dict-dir $HOME/.nix-profile/lib/aspell"
# ~/bin and the setuid wrappers override other bin directories.
export PATH=$HOME/bin:@wrapperDir@:$PATH
# The setuid wrappers override other bin directories.
export PATH=@wrapperDir@:$PATH
# Set up the per-user profile.
mkdir -m 0755 -p $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR