Re: User-level instance of /bin in PATH

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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:45 -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: 
> On 07/26/2011 08:36 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> > On 07/26/2011 08:03 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> >> 26.07.2011, 18:34, "Andrew Haley"<aph@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>> On 26/07/11 10:22, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>   Since F15 ~/bin has been added to PATH, and commands that are
> >>>>   supposed to run user scripts will work without changing into that
> >>>>   directory. Meanwhile, ~/.local/bin isn't used. I'd like to propose
> >>>>   that it is also added because technically it is ~/bin's brother.
> >>>
> >>> I've never heard of ~/.local/bin .  Are there many people who use
> >>> this?  ~/bin is common.
> >>
> >> ~/.local/bin has been there by default.
> >>
> >> Unlike ~/bin, which is in PATH though not even created.
> >>
> >
> >    Where in the path do the user 'bin' elements appear in the path?
> 
> In /etc/skel/.bash_profile they are added to the end and I think that is ok
> 
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
> 
> Never knew about ~/.local/bin my .bash_profile is really old from the 
> time where the default was only ~/bin

Can someone explain (or point to) the rationale appending these to PATH
rather than prepending them?  I would have expected user binaries to
supersede system ones.

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Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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