Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 27.07.11 16:05, Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
>> > I think the right approach here is to prep a patch for the spec and make
>> > the dir official given that a) it probably makes sense to have a
>> > standardized dir like this,
>>
>> I can't really see who is the expected user of ~/.local/bin .  From my
>> POV the whole point of ~/.local is to store data that is hidden from
>> users - it is "application" data, not "user data".
>>
>> Programs within the home directory were, presumably, explicitly
>> installed and created by the user, so they are "user data" - and
>> should be visible.
>
> It's too late. XDG basedir is an established spec, since years
> ago.
... which doesn't specify ~/.local/bin .

> There's no point in discussing this anymore.
<sigh>

> So, now we know:
> a) there's at least one app already implementing ~/.local/bin
> c) there's a spec about ~/.local/bin already accepted by a friendly project
... and nobody has so far complained that it doesn't work by default,
so it has probably not been used much.
> b) there's at least one OS already implementing ~/.local/bin
... for a little more than 6 weeks, so it is not really set in stone.

> d) there is point in having a standardized dir for this
*shrug* Anyone knowledgeable enough to install software in $HOME is
able to configure $PATH, and with some probability has strong opinions
on where the $prefix should be.

> hence: let's just change the xdg basedir spec to standardize it.
IMHO the ~/.local/bin place is a mistake, and it's still not too late
to stop making this mistake irreversible.
   Mirek