On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 08:05:05PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:

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>
> 2] /etc/profile
>
> 2.1] $PATH for users includes by default two specialty (and frivolous)
> entries - for games folders. This strikes me as inconsistent with what's
> meant to be a "universal OS" that can be expected to be deployed in
> everything from supercomputers to iot-microcontrollers.
>

I personally don't see any problem with having /usr/games in the PATH
of regular users, or why this might be a problem for a "Universal OS",
even when it is deployed to supercomputers and iot-boards
(unfortunately Linux does not run on microcontrollers, yet, mainly due
to the general lack of some form of underlying MMU in the vast
majority of microcontrollers...).

games have been a part of unix since its inception, since when it was
mainly used for a definitely-non-frovolous activity like handling
thousands of patent-related documents.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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