On 07/28/2011 06:17 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:

> 
> However, I find ~/.local an odd name.  To whom or what is it 'local'?  If
> you have home directories mounted via NFS and log into two different remote
> hosts via SSH - the only base is "local" to, is the user.  But if you start
> a program which is installed on server but lacks global libraries on the
> other server, then this program is suddenly "local" to a particular server
> in addition.  My point is that "local" is very ambiguous and its name is
> poorly chosen.  But I realise it's way too late to change "~/.local" to
> anything now.
> 

  This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and
login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin now makes now sense at all. You
need arch specific bins (bin, bin64 etc).



    gene/


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