Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1588562
Title:
Please add ~/.local/bin to the default $PATH
Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in bash source package in Xenial:
Confirmed
Status in bash package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
Starting in Xenial, 'pip install' by default places executables into
~/.local/bin. This is the de-facto standard place to put per-user
executables -- for example, Fedora/Redhat puts it on the $PATH by
default, and PEP 370 makes it the standard place for unprivileged
installs of Python packages to put their scripts.
But unfortunately, Ubuntu's does *not* add this directory to $PATH by
default, which means that 'pip install' doesn't actually work -- any
scripts that are installed are inaccessible, and every user has to
manually add this to their PATH.
Ubuntu should put ~/.local/bin onto PATH by default.
Minor details (discussed with @doko at the PyCon sprints):
- this should go at the beginning of PATH rather than the end, in accordance
with Debian policy saying that more-local paths go before more-upstream paths.
(This is inconsistent with how Fedora/RH do it, but consistent with how Python
itself searches for packages.)
- this will be added to /etc/skel/profile, so that it won't change any
existing user accounts; it will only be applied to user accounts created
*after* this change lands
- unlike ~/bin (which Debian/Ubuntu have supported for ages), it will be
added to PATH unconditionally, even if the directory doesn't exist. This is
important to avoid a nasty trap for new users, where the first time they try to
install a Python package they have to restart their shell. Since this only
applies to new accounts, the directory will always start out nonexistent/empty,
so having it in $PATH won't cause any unexpected changes in behavior.
- possibly it would make sense to set this in /etc/environment or
/etc/skel/.gnomerc or similar, so that it would also apply to non-shell
processes (e.g. if the user wants to add a global key-binding to launch a
Python program, then generally ~/.profile *doesn't* affect the environment
where this command gets executed, and that can frustrate and confuse users if a
command works fine from the terminal but not from a keybinding). But we should
defer this discussion for the future, because even if this is a good idea, it
isn't a good idea in a Xenial stable update.
Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820856
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