Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> As for a lib, I very much agree that there should be a directory. In
>> fact, I've recently started using ~/.local/bin for my own executables
>> instead of ~/bin. That allows me to keep my $HOME clean. But I don't
>> think an environment variable will be of much use unless it's
>> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
>
>I think the idea here was more for user-installed plugins that the app
>would dlopen() at runtime rather than rely on the linker finding at load
>time.  No $LD_LIBRARY_PATH annoyance needed in this case.

I'd expect each application to have its own dir in that case, to avoid 
naming conflicts.

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