On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/27/2011 12:19 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Wed, 27.07.11 17:40, Roman Rakus (rrakus@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> from the discussion here, I'm tempted to revert the change. Any objections? >> >> Yes. I am for keeping it in, and have prepped a patch for XDG basedir to >> make it official. > > What actually is the benefit of doing this? Why does xdg need the shell > have the PATH env include this - if xdg wants to use a fixed path - then > should it not use a fixed path and not require specific PATH environment > anyway? Now that you mention a "fixed path"... all of the basedir-spec directories are specified by environment variables (with, AFAICS, no clear definition of who sets the variables and when), with ~/.local being only a default path for some of the directories. So, if we wanted to add a path and be consistent with XDG basedir spec, simply adding ~/.local/bin would be incorrect - and it's not clear to me that it is at all possible to do it correctly in ~/.bash_profile. (And of course, the thing to standardize would not be "bin", but a subdirectory structure as defined by the GNU standards for --prefix.) Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
