On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:13:11 +0200 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. There's no point in discussing this anymore. > > Also, not only XDG basedir established these dirs, Python did too: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ > > I'd be delighted if somebody would prep a patch for the XDG basedir > spec to get it more in line with PEP 370. > > So, now we know: > > a) there's at least one app already implementing ~/.local/bin > > b) there's at least one OS already implementing ~/.local/bin > > c) there's a spec about ~/.local/bin already accepted by a friendly > project This is STILL a security risk, even if somebody calls it a standard. > > d) there is point in having a standardized dir for this > > hence: let's just change the xdg basedir spec to standardize it. > > Lennart > -- Bernd Stramm bernd.stramm@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
