Hi, Am 22.11.24 um 08:47 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
What is the benefit of .local/bin over bin? $HOME clutter is not a good reason. Look at all the desktop folders that are set up. Maybe some of them could go away. Does anyone really store their videos in $HOME/Videos? Or their MP3s in $HOME/Music? Or their documents in $HOME/Documents? etc.
FWIW you can via xdg-user-dir reconfigure, where ~/{Music,Videos} and the like are located, possibly also even hide under a dot-directory, so they do not pester you. There's no standard/plattform-independent configuration or standard to reconfigure this for ~/bin.
It makes no difference to me as I will continue with bin. But then people will say that not using .local/bin is bad design as, after all, it is set up for each user. I suggest that placing binaries that are in your $PATH in a hidden folder is bad design.
That's something i can understand, at least from a PoV of taste. But i still would like to be able to set a configuration to configure it to my taste. I can do so with xdg-user-dir. I can not do this in a stable independent manner with ~/bin to my knowledge, which will not break when i move to other types of linux/unix systems. Jm2c, Kind regards, as someone with 2 scripts in VMs in ~/bin and 3 in ~/.local/bin in bare metal ones, Dennis -- Dennis Knorr, dennis.knorr@suse.com SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 90461 Nuernberg Germany www.suse.com Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)