Bug 68483

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "grep Path /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf"
2. Read output carefully.
3. Think.
	

Actual Results:  
There are three problems with these paths.

First, /usr/bin appears twice in each of them.  This is just silly.

Second, /usr/bin/X11 is not an FHS-compliant path.  It happens to work thanks to
a blecherous backwards-compatibility symlink, but I suggest that /usr/X11R6/bin
would be cleaner.

Third, and the thing which made me notice this, is that /usr/bin appears BEFORE
/usr/local/bin.  This is bad; normal Unix admin practice is to put stuff in
/usr/local to override the versions supplied by the vendor.  Every other default
PATH setting I have ever seen puts /usr/local/bin first, which makes sense.  I
suggest moving it earlier, for consistency with what everything else (e.g.,
/etc/profile) tries to achieve.


Expected Results:  See above.


Additional info:

One workaround is to create /etc/environment with the PATH of your choice.  That
is what I did here...

(By the way, thanks for a generally excellent product.)