Comment # 1 on bug 1045898 from Wolfgang Bauer

So, you are saying that $HOME/bin is not part of $PATH anymore by default?
That's completely unrelated to KDE then.

On my 42.2 system, this is added in /etc/profile, contained in the package
aaa_base:
#
# Make path more comfortable
#
if test -z "$PROFILEREAD" ; then
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
    if test "$HOME" != "/" ; then
        for dir in $HOME/bin/$CPU $HOME/bin ; do
            test -d $dir && PATH=$dir:$PATH
        done
    fi


Re-assigning to Basesystem therefore.