On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:17:38PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> writes: > > > ~/.local/bin should be added to the PATH environment variable by > > default, see > > <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316765/which-distributions-have-home-local-bin-in-path>. > > They say that this is specified in the systemd file-hierarchy > specification. We already ignore most of this specification (see any > entry mentioning /usr, for example). > > I think we can safely ignore this specification. >
Adding ~/.local/bin to the PATH is common on other distros. When compiling and installing software as a user without making a package for it, I want to configure it with --prefix=$HOME/.local so I can install without sudo. Then I want to be able to run: myprog instead of PATH=$HOME/.local/bin myprog In particular, I want instructions to work on all distros, even though Debian failed/fails to do this at the moment too. Regards, Florian
