On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:02 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https:// > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid > installation prefix. > ... > So personally I would recommend against using $HOME/.local as installation > prefix. I am however curious where this suggestion originally came from. > This is entirely speculation... I'm looking at this system where I've been testing the GnuCash versions available as Snap and Flatpak... and I see that the Flatpak installation apparently added ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share to the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. Maybe whoever wrote the wiki entry was also working with Flatpak and thought .local would be a good place to stash things to make them more accessible to Flatpak. I would think ~/bin would be a more ideal suggestion because I see it is already defined in my bash $PATH on this Ubuntu machine. (And I'm pretty sure I didn't add it, though I may have.) _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
