> The IT dept installed and compiled tons of software for the various systems and AFS had an @sys string that you would put into your symbolic link and then it would dereference to the actual directory for that specific system architecture.
This sounds cool, but I've wondered - couldn't you just stick something like
export $PATH=/nfs/bin/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m):$PATH
(I'm actually doing something like this myself; I don't (yet) have AFS or NFS strongly in play in my environment, but of all things I've resorted to this trick to pick out binaries in ~/.local/bin when using distrobox, because Alpine and OpenSUSE are not ABI compatible)