Anybody can customize the default user home directory layout for his/environment.

I think the question is mostly what makes sense to be the default.

My 2 cents.


On Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 19:02 Robert Webb via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
 On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:17:41 -0300, Heitor Moreira <heitor@opensuse.org> wrote:
> Em 20/11/2024 18:55, Carlos E. R. escreveu:
>> On 2024-11-20 22:43, Heitor Moreira via openSUSE Factory wrote:
>>> The change doesn't remove already created directories, only stops
>>> creating the directory to new users.
>>>
>>> What scripts would break and why?
>>
>> Thousands written over decades.

> Thousands written over decades and you are unable to cite at least a few?
> Do you mean that people are writing scripts with hard dependency to
> $HOME/bin/? Really!?

"$HOME/bin" is in the install target of my makefiles for scripts
and programs.  Filesystem management scripts are another place to
use that path.  It is in my ~/.profile.  Some scripts set $PATH and
include $HOME/bin.

I would be surprised if you couldn't find instances of that path in a
search of the openSUSE repositories.
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Robert Webb