On Tue, 26.07.11 15:05, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 07/26/2011 12:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin > > > > This was added between bash-4.2.10 -2 and -3: > > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=bash.git;a=commitdiff;h=02b20d810111e8b53bb98ad49fedd1d583ce62e1 > > > > because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699812 > > > > There is some rationale in that bug, but I think it's extremely bogus. > > Specifically, Lennart said that it was required by XDG which he > coauthored :) Nah, the basedir spec does not mandate the bin subdir. WHat I said in the bug report is that I think it makes a lot of sense to have the XDG basedir stuff in the $PATH. > There seem to be two arguments for this style: XDG seems to propose > .local/{bin,lib,...} hierarchy; also some people claimed that it's > easier to accidentally delete ~/bin as opposed to ~/.local/bin. > I am not convinced by either argument: ~/bin and ~/lib look just fine to > me, and accidental deletion is IMHO a strawman. Is there something I am > missing? I don't think it makes a lot of sense to have a visible directory for binaries. People will see that, and be annoyed. Note that there are a number of 3rd party projects making use of ~/.config/bin afaik, including jhbuild which installs its executable to that dir. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
