On 2 May 2018 at 10:47, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2018, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >>>> It's already there. And it is XDG complaint. The question here is about >>>> order (what takes priority). >>> >>> >>> Can you point me to the XDG specification that requires it ? It was >>> mentioned by Lenart on the bug, but he later clarified his comment[1]. >> >> >> So this came up again recently here: >> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2017-August/013938.html >> >> (see the full thread) >> >> And I even promised to merge the proposed spec addition there, but >> never actually did that. Maybe I really should now... > > > Adding invisible directories to a user's PATH is putting esthetics over > security and is the wrong thing to do. > > I have no problem with ~/bin/ but feel a bit reserved about ~/local/bin/ > as ~/local might not be obvious to the user as an added binary containing > directory. I guess this is to allow more than binaries. The ~/local seems to allow for {lib, share, man} etc which would pollute a home directory much more. [I dislike the hidden . part as I wasn't aware it was in my path at all.] > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
