On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 27.07.11 16:05, Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Lennart Poettering >> <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I think the right approach here is to prep a patch for the spec and make >> > the dir official given that a) it probably makes sense to have a >> > standardized dir like this, >> >> I can't really see who is the expected user of ~/.local/bin . From my >> POV the whole point of ~/.local is to store data that is hidden from >> users - it is "application" data, not "user data". >> >> Programs within the home directory were, presumably, explicitly >> installed and created by the user, so they are "user data" - and >> should be visible. > > It's too late. XDG basedir is an established spec, since years > ago. ... which doesn't specify ~/.local/bin . > There's no point in discussing this anymore. <sigh> > So, now we know: > a) there's at least one app already implementing ~/.local/bin > c) there's a spec about ~/.local/bin already accepted by a friendly project ... and nobody has so far complained that it doesn't work by default, so it has probably not been used much. > b) there's at least one OS already implementing ~/.local/bin ... for a little more than 6 weeks, so it is not really set in stone. > d) there is point in having a standardized dir for this *shrug* Anyone knowledgeable enough to install software in $HOME is able to configure $PATH, and with some probability has strong opinions on where the $prefix should be. > hence: let's just change the xdg basedir spec to standardize it. IMHO the ~/.local/bin place is a mistake, and it's still not too late to stop making this mistake irreversible. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
