Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Jul 27 14:40:01 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 04:24:06PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> IMHO the ~/.local/bin place is a mistake, and it's still not too late
> to stop making this mistake irreversible.

Yeah.  Every $PATH element has its runtime cost (execvp needs to search
that path, at least for unsuccessful searches, or if a later element
contains a dir which actually contains the right executable), and hiding
a dir into which something stores executables that are to be found by
default is certainly not desirable.

	Jakub


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