Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 05/04/2018 04:42 PM, John Florian wrote: > > Just checking my own PATH, I see some surprising things at the front: > > > > $ echo $PATH > > /usr/libexec/python3-sphinx:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > > > > I love Sphinx and Qt, but what are they doing there ... at the front? > > Ditto. And *libexec* at that. libexec by definition is "internal > binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell > scripts", so it really does not belong in anybodys PATH. It looks like a kludge to make python2-sphinx and python3-sphinx parallel-installable and allow individual users to choose one or the other, without breaking things that invoke the commands by their unversioned names. It's yet another consequence of not designing a programming language with enough forethought to make future versions backward-compatible. I suppose we'll get rid of it some day when all Sphinx plugins have been ported to Python 3. Björn Persson
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