Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

[Josh Stone]

On 07/26/2011 09:49 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:45:11AM -0430, Robert Marcano wrote:
>> In /etc/skel/.bash_profile they are added to the end and I think that is ok
>>
>> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
> 
> This was added between bash-4.2.10 -2 and -3:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=bash.git;a=commitdiff;h=02b20d810111e8b53bb98ad49fedd1d583ce62e1
> 
> because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699812
> 
> There is some rationale in that bug, but I think it's extremely bogus.

bogus because... ?

I for one find it useful since e.g. "python setup.py install --user"
puts things in ~/.local/{bin,lib,etc}/