From 5e66632232d433955c92c76506e79774050d96cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Bokoc Date: Nov 01 2018 16:14:45 +0000 Subject: 186 - User PATH prioritization --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/System_Utilities.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/System_Utilities.adoc index a9eb02b..86c373e 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/System_Utilities.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/System_Utilities.adoc @@ -51,3 +51,11 @@ Its goal is to enable easier setup and management of disks and SSDs, as well as Furthermore, Stratis includes monitoring and repair capabilities, and a programmatic API, for better integration with higher levels of system management software. See link:++https://stratis-storage.github.io/++[the project website] for documentation and full release notes. + +== User PATH prioritization + +Fedora now prioritizes commands from `$HOME/.local/bin` and `$HOME/bin` over system-wide paths to allow to easily mask system binaries with newer versions. +For example, `pip install --user virtualenv` will now work even when `virtualenv` from the package repositories is installed. +The new behavior is only available for newly created user accounts. + +If you have existing user accounts and you want to benefit from this change, edit file [filename]`~/.bash_profile` and adjust the `PATH` definition to `PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH` (see `/etc/skel/.bash_profile`).