Adding ~/.local/bin to default PATH

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On 07/28/2011 12:36 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
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>>   I don't follow your thought here - if you have a bin64/ and a bin/
>> etc and you have your shell initscripts decide (e.g. using uname -m)
>> which of those to include in your PATH I think it does work ... provided
>> you have (obviously) both (all) populated with whats needed...
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> But that is still going to be a convoluted mess.  For those poor users who
> then have access to arm, ia32, ppc64, s390x and x86_64, you suddenly need 5
> different ~/.local/bin directories ... And I've probably forgotten some arches.

 I concur - I voted against this proposal :-) - the arch stuff just
reinforces why its not a good design whenever there are any binaries
involved ..