Debian has recently merged /bin and /usr/bin, that is, /bin is now a symlink to /usr/bin. However, the default PATH defined in /etc/login.defs still contains both directories:
ENV_SUPATH PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin ENV_PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games This leads to duplicates when all directories in PATH are searched. For example:
$ type -a ls ls is /usr/bin/ls ls is /bin/ls $ ( IFS=:; grep -rlI '^#! */bin/sh' $PATH ) | grep apt- /usr/bin/apt-key /bin/apt-key Thus it would be nice to remove /bin and /sbin from PATH, but since this hasn't been done I assume there's some, perhaps subtle, reasons why. So, what would be the consequences of removing these directories from PATH?
