$HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:00:54 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote:

> > 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.

That's scary stuff for a distribution like Fedora!
It even overrides (!) Python's search path for Modules:

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib64/python27.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/home/ms/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages']