Re: [Help-bash] OT: Extension to PATH environment variable's "API"

[Christof Warlich]

Sorry, please disregard this post, I just sent it accidently, so it is 
just not finished.

Am 28.10.2018 um 12:13 schrieb Christof Warlich:
> Hi,
>
> I marked this as off-topic as this is not a request for help but the 
> suggestion of an idea to slightly extend the utility of the PATH 
> environment variable that I'd like to briefly discuss here.
>
> Currently, there are two options when installing new binaries that 
> should "just be found" through the PATH environment variable:
>
> 1) Adding the binaries to a directory that typically is already part 
> of the PATH environment variable.
> 2) Putting the binaries into a new, dedicated directory and adding 
> that directory to the PATH environment variable.
>
> Both approaches have considerable disadvantages: The first one leads 
> to cluttered directories (consider /user/bin on typical Linux 
> distributions), e.g. missing the capability to group the binaries into 
> the packages they belong, while the second causes a long and cluttered 
> PATH. And both approaches more or less fail for binaries with 
> conflicting (i.e. same) names.