Re: [PATCH 0/2] XDG basedir bin dirs

2018-05-02 Thread Josh Triplett
e tools not hardcoding ~/.local/bin. If someone sets $XDG_BIN_HOME, it'll be their responsibility to put the target directory in $PATH. A distribution could, by default, add ~/.local/bin to $PATH in /etc/skel/.bashrc, and if someone wants to set $XDG_B

Re: [PATCH 0/2] XDG basedir bin dirs

2018-05-02 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 09:52:44PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, it's fine if people use different install prefixes. The question > though is if the xdg basedir spec really needs to care too much about > that. I mean, what matters really is that the XDG basedir spec defines > *search* pa

Re: [PATCH 0/2] XDG basedir bin dirs

2018-05-02 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 09:13:40PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 02.05.18 11:30, Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > On Di, 29.08.17 18:42, Johannes Löthberg (johan..

Re: [PATCH 0/2] XDG basedir bin dirs

2018-05-02 Thread Josh Triplett
#x27;t think we can do anything about that now. So given the current state, I think we should have an $XDG_BIN_HOME analogous to the other $XDG_* variables to allow people to point this elsewhere if they want. If they do, they'll have to take care of getting it into $PATH and similar, but t

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] basedir: Add XDG_BIN_HOME

2017-08-29 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:27:50PM +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > --- > Dropped XDG_BIN_DIRS and add note about architecture-specificity of HOME > due to XDG_BIN_HOME. This version of the proposal looks great to me, and thank you for working on this. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett If