On 03/05/18 09:39, Tomas Orsava wrote:
<snip>
I just wanted to say that many users would not need sudo access at
all if they
were able to install software to their home directory in a way that
it works
out of the box.
oh yes, that would be the ideal situation, and if ~/.login/bin is so
standard you'd think that things like pip would check to see if there
was a more up to date version of themselves in there and run it rather
than the system installation.
pip actually checks if ~/.local/bin is on the PATH and prints a
warning if it isn't. But nobody predicted that ~/.local/bin might be
on the PATH but only behind /usr/bin. That breaks the intuitive
expectation that things installed closer to the user should take
priority. Python works like that.
Oh I suspect someone predicted it I or else noone reads the fish book
any more. The standard advice I've heard/read since the year dot is to
append rather than prepend ~ or $HOME paths, I guess that makes me old
fashioned
At the very least it seems like a fairly obvious thing to check for or
at least pop up a warning for. If your software breaks because your
users don't do what you expect then you're going to have fragile
software, I've found that life tends to work like that.
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