Hi 2011/7/27 Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxx>: > (And of course, the thing to standardize would not be "bin", but a > subdirectory structure as defined by the GNU standards for --prefix.) I agree, it is precisely what I would like to see in a standard, a home "GNU" prefix for installing projects locally (that is, /opt and /usr/local are not an option). Personally, I would be happy if my distro respect this home prefix by default (not only for $PATH but for other envs that have lookup paths) I don't understand the security risks. If something is allowed to write to ~/.local/bin (or ~/bin etc..), then surely it's able to read elsewhere or do something else nasty. Could someone detail it? Making the directory "hidden" is just as reasonable as making application data/config dot files/directories, like proposed by FHS. The rationale is probably that $HOME is the place for user content, and shouldn't be cluttered with "visible" non-user files/directories (would be nice to put rationale in the specs) regards -- Marc-André Lureau -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
