/home/user/bin/ should be in the user PATH

[Jan Moren]

I have noticed that /home/<user>/bin/ is not in the PATH. Is there a particular
reason for this? I find it pretty convenient as a pplace to place things I'm
working on, but that should not in any way be part of the system. My own scripts
and wrappers, as well as personal projects, should not be available for other
users after all, and shouldn not clutter up /usr/local/bin or something either.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

this is prepared, but currently commented out. please edit your ~/.bash_profile
and uncomment the sections for PATH and MANPATH at the end of the file.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Incidentally, why is MANPATH messed with at all there? man will automatically
look in $HOME/man if $HOME/bin is on $PATH. I tend to think that it's better to
avoid setting MANPATH unless you have unusual requirements.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

fixed in bash_3.0-9ubuntu1.

[Dennis Murczak (dmurczak)]

~/bin is not in my PATH on Feisty and there is also no .bashrc. Is this a regression from previous versions?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

we don't muck around with existing user files; this will not be fixed for existing users.