Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Hi,

Really, this discussion is pointless. It should be taken to whoever
maintains the xdg directory layout specs nowadays (even the FHS editors
gave up on normalizing /home layout and pushed the problem xdg-side)

http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788#c5
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

I agree that xdg specifying hidden dirs by default is a poor idea. If
they were cleanly laid out there would be no need to hide them.

Likewise, the way the layout can be redefined via environment variables
is quite a bit of gratuituous overengineering that makes the lives of
everyone miserable for little gain (selinux is already reaching inside
home, guess what will happen at relabel time if someone tries to move
one of the default dirs?)

It's all been done to make nautilus happy with "user-friendly"
"localized" names on the user desktop (aping the windows mess). And now
gnome3 people have decided shortcuts on the desktop are a bad idea so
the whole justification for those choices does not exist anymore.

Nevertheless, the xdg group is the one with the most chance to define
some /home conventions, the next FHS spec is going to say so, and since
in Fedora we follow the FHS, your best change is to work out the kinks
xdg-side now ⇒ UPSTREAM first

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot