Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 06:17 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> 
>>
>> However, I find ~/.local an odd name.  To whom or what is it 'local'?  If
>> you have home directories mounted via NFS and log into two different remote
>> hosts via SSH - the only base is "local" to, is the user.  But if you start
>> a program which is installed on server but lacks global libraries on the
>> other server, then this program is suddenly "local" to a particular server
>> in addition.  My point is that "local" is very ambiguous and its name is
>> poorly chosen.  But I realise it's way too late to change "~/.local" to
>> anything now.
>>

I just assumed it was by analogy to /usr/local - a per-user directory for local
installation with a structure mimicking /usr.

>   This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and
> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin now makes now sense at all. You
> need arch specific bins (bin, bin64 etc).

Currently Fedora only separates out the /lib* directories in multilib
installations - you'll find a mix of 32 and 64 bit binaries in the system binary
paths on these systems.

Regards,
Bryn.