On 2 May 2018 at 10:47, Paul Wouters <paul(a)nohats.ca> 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:
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https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2017-August/013938.html
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> (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 guess this is to allow more than binaries. The ~/local seems to
allow for {lib, share, man} etc which would pollute a home directory
much more. [I dislike the hidden . part as I wasn't aware it was in my
path at all.]
Paul
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