On 10/28/2013 09:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:28:01AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: >>> * Tue Jun 07 2011 Roman Rakus <…> - 4.2.10-3 >>> - Added $HOME/.local/bin to PATH in .bash_profile (#699812) >> An invisible directory in everyone's PATH. That's rather unfortunate. > > Okay, I'll bite. Why is this _particularly_ unfortunate? The directory isn't > actually "invisible", just hidden. There are plenty of hidden files in home > directories which are executed all of the time, like ~/.bashrc and > ~/.bash_profile, and whatever X startup scripts your environment uses. > Another reason, why this is unfortunate is: We're supporting multiple arches. User directories are for user data. Esp. it is intended to share user directories between computers. So, it's absolutely ok to share between multiple arches, such as i386, arm, etc. When putting arch specific data in a shared dir, all kinds of stuff may happen; in most cases, applications just crash. Matthias -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
