Does git belong in root's $PATH?

From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2006, 17:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601070838470.6317@x2.ybpnyarg>

When updated my kernel this morning, the same way I've been doing it for many months, I noticed that the -gxxxxxxx localversion string was missing from the new kernel's name.

I finally figured out that this happened because /usr/local/bin is not in my root's $PATH, and the setlocalversion script depends on git. (The only thing I do as root is 'make install').

I suppose I'm asking a philosophical question here: do you guys install git where root can find it (as a system tool)? Does it really matter? (The linux distribution I use is very picky about what it includes in root's path...)

Thanks!

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