On Aug 12, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
[...] IIRC, Allan was thinking of dropping sourcing of shell init files for commands in general, and not just for those with a shebang line.
Indeed -- while it is nice to have things work out of the box for most users, it also means breaking things for some users (who do “complex” stuff in the startup), it adds the startup-time of the init files to every little command (just to get PATH), and it didn’t work for non-bash-users anyway.