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...@kyriasis.com) wrote: > > > > heya, > > > > > I've had some old patches around for the XDG basedir spec, and figured I > > > might as well finally send them in and see what people think. > > > > > > The first one just reformats some text and fixes some inconsistent > > > indentation, so should be pretty uncontroversial. > > > > > > The second patch adds XDG_BIN_HOME and XDG_BIN_DIRS to the basedir spec, > > > standardizing ~/.local/bin as the default user-specific bin directory. > > > > Sorry for dropping the ball on this one. > > > > The whole discussion just came up on fedora devel again, so I figured > > I really should merge this now. I hence pinged Allison about this, one > > of the original spec authors, and she suggested we should not define > > any new env vars but simply document the dir as ~/.local/bin. > > While I don't think we need the full complexity of $XDG_BIN_DIRS, having > $XDG_BIN_HOME to override seems useful, for the same reason as the rest > of the $XDG_* variables. (With the full benefit of hindsight, I'd have > suggested having a single $XDG_HOME that defaults to ~/.local, serving as the > root for > everything except $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, so that people could choose to point > it somewhere other than ~/.local without having to set a pile of > individual variables, but I don'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 tools that install binaries > can use the desired directory as the target for installation.)
So yeah, Allison also suggested that having a single "XDG_PREFIX" env var would have been the much better option, rather than have individual ones. Now, that ship sailed pretty much, but that's not reason enough to go for XDG_BIN_HOME really. I mean, "~/.local/" is hardcoded as fallback prefix into the spec, so we should just accept that here too, and admit that making this individually configurable wasn't the best of ideas. I mean, making the searhc paths dynamically configurable using an env var by all means made sense, but the "home" dirs? i am not convinced... But dunno, I am not feeling too strongly about this, but it appeared to me that just not doing an env var here was the best way to get this in quickly... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg