$HOME/.local/bin in $PATH

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Oct 28 21:50:30 UTC 2013



Am 28.10.2013 22:48, schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 16:27 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> 
>> I don't know where, if anywhere, this behavior is specified.  It's just
>> what the Python package installation tools do.  I haven't seen any
>> other program do this, for better or worse.
>>
> 
> jhbuild [1] installs itself in $HOME/.local/bin too.
> 
> [1] https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/stable/getting-started.html.en)

which does not make wrong and *dangerous* behavior correct

a *hidden* *user writeable* directory *in front* of PATH is
plain stupid security wise and there is not but and not if

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