User-level instance of /bin in PATH

[Robert Marcano]

On 07/26/2011 08:36 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 08:03 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
>> 26.07.2011, 18:34, "Andrew Haley"<aph at redhat.com>:
>>> On 26/07/11 10:22, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Since F15 ~/bin has been added to PATH, and commands that are
>>>>   supposed to run user scripts will work without changing into that
>>>>   directory. Meanwhile, ~/.local/bin isn't used. I'd like to propose
>>>>   that it is also added because technically it is ~/bin's brother.
>>>
>>> I've never heard of ~/.local/bin .  Are there many people who use
>>> this?  ~/bin is common.
>>
>> ~/.local/bin has been there by default.
>>
>> Unlike ~/bin, which is in PATH though not even created.
>>
>
>    Where in the path do the user 'bin' elements appear in the path?

In /etc/skel/.bash_profile they are added to the end and I think that is ok

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin

Never knew about ~/.local/bin my .bash_profile is really old from the 
time where the default was only ~/bin