On Tue, 26.07.11 15:05, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov) wrote:
On 07/26/2011 12:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
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> This was added between bash-4.2.10 -2 and -3:
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>
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=bash.git;a=commitdiff;h=02b20d810...
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> because of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699812
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> There is some rationale in that bug, but I think it's extremely bogus.
Specifically, Lennart said that it was required by XDG which he
coauthored :)
Nah, the basedir spec does not mandate the bin subdir.
WHat I said in the bug report is that I think it makes a lot of sense to
have the XDG basedir stuff in the $PATH.
There seem to be two arguments for this style: XDG seems to propose
.local/{bin,lib,...} hierarchy; also some people claimed that it's
easier to accidentally delete ~/bin as opposed to ~/.local/bin.
I am not convinced by either argument: ~/bin and ~/lib look just fine to
me, and accidental deletion is IMHO a strawman. Is there something I am
missing?
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to have a visible directory for
binaries. People will see that, and be annoyed.
Note that there are a number of 3rd party projects making use of
~/.config/bin afaik, including jhbuild which installs its executable to
that dir.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.