[Neurodebian-devel] afni, fsl commands in path by default?

[Benjamin Kay]

I've noticed that with both afni and fsl packages (and possibly others), few executables make it into $PATH without the user having to do something. Given how easy it would be to make afni and fsl commands appear in the executable search path by default (see below), is there some benefit to the current setup that justifies the considerable confusion it has created for users?

For afni, all that would be needed is the following additional line in debian/afni.links:
/etc/afni/afni.sh /etc/profile.d/afni.sh

For fsl, one would need to create debian/fsl.conf containing the line:
/usr/lib/fsl/4.1

Add one line to debian/fsl-4.1.install:
debian/fsl.conf etc/ld.so.conf.d/fsl.conf

And add one line to debian/fsl-4.1.links:
/etc/fsl/4.1/fsl.sh /etc/profile.d/fsl.sh