On Mi, 02.05.18 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 presume you mean "~/.local" rather than "~/local"? .local/ was introduced and documented in 2003. That's 15 years ago now. Pretty much everybody settled on it these days, and many distributions have clear language suggesting its use. For example, here's the wording from Debian: "Debian does not require that packages conform to the XDGBDS but strongly encourages upstreams to do so. " — https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification Now, the ~/.local/bin/ thing is mostly just a natural extension of XDG basedir, and many systems have adopted it anyway without this being explicitly written into any spec. So yeah, I think it's about time we just update the spec to its natural extension and to what people already use. I don't think anyone is helped if we introduce yet another directory for this, in particular as the security benefit of using any other path is not universally agreed to. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
