Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jul 27 12:00:57 UTC 2011


Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 12:54 +0100, Andrew Haley a écrit :
> On 07/27/2011 11:45 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 11:23 +0100, Andrew Haley a écrit :
> >> On 27/07/11 11:19, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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)
> >>
> >> No, because this is not an xdg-mandated change.  xdg doesn't mention
> >> anything to do with bin dirs.  This is purely Fedora-local.
> > 
> > xdg normalizes the /home parts that matter for interoperability. Other
> > normalization groups like the FHS have already agreed they are the right
> > forum to define /home layout conventions. It is pointless to try to
> > start defining location conventions for binaries in /home fedora side
> > and bypass xdg now.
> 
> I can no longer tell whether you are for or against adding ~/.local/bin
> to the default PATH.

I am against discussing the problem without putting xdg in the loop

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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