Re: Proposal: Removal of the /etc/skel/bin/ directory

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de> wrote:

FWIW, I suggest a middle ground that is employed by Debian: don't provide /etc/skel/bin, but check whether ~/bin and ~/.local/bin exist in /etc/skel/.profile and add these to $PATH if they do.

Using this approach, new user accounts are free to choose whether to create a bin directory in their home directory (and, frankly, most of them probably won't) and if they decide to do so, it will still work transparently after a login cycle.

This would be my choice as well. -- Roger Oberholtzer