On 07/27/2011 01:00 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 12:54 +0100, Andrew Haley a écrit :
> On 07/27/2011 11:45 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 11:23 +0100, Andrew Haley a écrit :
>>> On 27/07/11 11:19, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>
>>>> Really, this discussion is pointless. It should be taken to whoever
>>>> maintains the xdg directory layout specs nowadays (even the FHS editors
>>>> gave up on normalizing /home layout and pushed the problem xdg-side)
>>>
>>> No, because this is not an xdg-mandated change. xdg doesn't mention
>>> anything to do with bin dirs. This is purely Fedora-local.
>>
>> xdg normalizes the /home parts that matter for interoperability. Other
>> normalization groups like the FHS have already agreed they are the right
>> forum to define /home layout conventions. It is pointless to try to
>> start defining location conventions for binaries in /home fedora side
>> and bypass xdg now.
>
> I can no longer tell whether you are for or against adding ~/.local/bin
> to the default PATH.
I am against discussing the problem without putting xdg in the loop
Lennart reads this. He wrote:
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.
I have to say that
a. xdg (in the form of Lennart) already is in the loop
b. xdg doesn't require (or even suggest) ~/.local/bin
and therefore
c. This issue is purely Fedora-local, at least for the time being.
Maybe xdg will decide to endorse ~/.local/bin; maybe not. Either way,
it may be that this change to Fedora is premature.
Andrew.