Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 07/28/2011 01:41 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> 
>>>   This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and
>>> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin now makes now sense at all. You
>>> need arch specific bins (bin, bin64 etc).
>>
>> Currently Fedora only separates out the /lib* directories in multilib
>> installations - you'll find a mix of 32 and 64 bit binaries in the system binary
>> paths on these systems.
>>
> 
>  which is fine for a 'system' which is 64 bit and may support 32 bit as
> well - its not fine for a 'user'  who logs in to a 32 bit machine from a
> 64 bit machine and now his binaries wont work.

Separating bin paths like this would not solve the problem; anything that's only
present in one path or the other would still fail in the scenario you suggest.
You could equally install foo/foo64 or vice versa into the same directory.

Regards,
Bryn.