On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:45:11AM -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 07/26/2011 08:36 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 07/26/2011 08:03 AM, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > >> 26.07.2011, 18:34, "Andrew Haley"<a...@redhat.com>: > >>> On 26/07/11 10:22, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > >>> > >>>> Since F15 ~/bin has been added to PATH, and commands that are > >>>> supposed to run user scripts will work without changing into that > >>>> directory. Meanwhile, ~/.local/bin isn't used. I'd like to propose > >>>> that it is also added because technically it is ~/bin's brother. > >>> > >>> I've never heard of ~/.local/bin . Are there many people who use > >>> this? ~/bin is common. > >> > >> ~/.local/bin has been there by default. > >> > >> Unlike ~/bin, which is in PATH though not even created. > >> > > > > Where in the path do the user 'bin' elements appear in the path? > > In /etc/skel/.bash_profile they are added to the end and I think that is ok > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
This was added between bash-4.2.10 -2 and -3: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=bash.git;a=commitdiff;h=02b20d810111e8b53bb98ad49fedd1d583ce62e1 because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699812 There is some rationale in that bug, but I think it's extremely bogus. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
