On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:30:05 +0000 Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Seg, 2013-10-28 at 14:00 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > Does any software store files into $HOME/.local/bin/ yet? > > > > Yes. > > > > pip install --user <some python package> > > > > The pip user scheme is to use ~/.local as an FHS-ish thing. IMO, > > this is much superior to the cabal, gem, etc. notion that they > > should each have their own bin directory for user-installed > > programs. > > Hi, I have pip in Debian servers (old and new release) and in Fedora, > and don't find any .local/bin > So my argument is more , nobody and noapp put things in ~/.local/bin Fedora 19: $ pip install --user --upgrade mercurial $ ls ~/.local/bin/hg /home/michael/.local/bin/hg So, if you use 'pip install --user' to install a Python module that provides scripts/executables, it will by default put those executables in ~/.local/bin. > and where is xdg recommendation to use .local/bin ? I goggling it and > don't find any reference to that . I don't know where, if anywhere, this behavior is specified. It's just what the Python package installation tools do. I haven't seen any other program do this, for better or worse. - Michael -- Michael Ekstrand — http://elehack.net/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
