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

* On 11/20/24 20:51, Heitor Moreira wrote:

I would like to propose the removal of the $HOME/bin directory from the default setup. [...]

Wow, this has sparked quite some discussion (and derailing). 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. Mihai