On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
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