On 10/28/2013 02:08 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
On Seg, 2013-10-28 at 11:28 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: 
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Exists for a longer time already, added in of the .fc16 builds:

* Tue Jun 07 2011 Roman Rakus <…> - 4.2.10-3
- Added $HOME/.local/bin to PATH in .bash_profile (#699812)
An invisible directory in everyone's PATH. That's rather unfortunate.

When will this be removed?
I agree, I don't have $HOME/.local/bin directory , but bug #699812 ,have
request the opposite ... , I don't see any good reason there but ...   

I agree that it smells like trouble security-wise. The original reason given was that it is required by XDG, but I don't understand the utility of ~/.local/bin : is it about separating local-arch binaries from common storage?