$HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Oct 28 19:18:44 UTC 2013


Am 28.10.2013 20:00, schrieb Michael Ekstrand:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:51:06 +0100
> Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:44:23 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>
>>> Deja vĂș: 
>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/154896.html
>>
>> Hah! A thread of doom.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Does any software store files into $HOME/.local/bin/ yet?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> pip install --user <some python package>
> 
> The pip user scheme is to use ~/.local as an FHS-ish thing. IMO, this
> is much superior to the cabal, gem, etc. notion that they should each
> have their own bin directory for user-installed programs

the they should use ~/local or whatever
but using a hidden dir for binaries should be prohibited
besides that user-writeable binaries are bad for security resons too


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