Attachment 139281 Details for Bug 106360 – basedir: document ~/.local/bin

[patch] basedir: document ~/.local/bin

0002-basedir-document-.local-bin.patch (text/plain), 2.35 KB, created by Lennart Poettering on 2018-05-02 17:43:50 UTC

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Created: 2018-05-02 17:43:50 UTC

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>From a197da707cc46e52ed2ba86b7965a9b16444093f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: =?UTF-8?q?Johannes=20L=C3=B6thberg?= <johannes@kyriasis.com>
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:27:50 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH 2/3] basedir: document ~/.local/bin
>
>---
> basedir/basedir-spec.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
>index eefbe2b..305229c 100644
>--- a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
>+++ b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
>@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@
>           </address>
>         </affiliation>
>       </author>
>+      <author>
>+        <firstname>Johannes</firstname>
>+        <surname>LÃ¶thberg</surname>
>+        <affiliation>
>+          <address>
>+            <email>johannes@kyriasis.com</email>
>+          </address>
>+        </affiliation>
>+      </author>
>     </authorgroup>
>   </articleinfo>
> 
>@@ -66,6 +75,12 @@
>             environment variable <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</literal>.
>           </para>
>         </listitem>
>+        <listitem>
>+          <para>
>+            There is a single base directory relative to which
>+            user-specific executable files may be written.
>+          </para>
>+        </listitem>
>         <listitem>
>           <para>
>             There is a set of preference ordered base directories relative to
>@@ -122,6 +137,21 @@
>       <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</literal> is either not set or empty, a default equal to
>       <literal>$HOME</literal>/.config should be used.
>     </para>
>+    <para>
>+      User-specific executable files may be stored in
>+      <literal>$HOME</literal>/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure
>+      this directory shows up in the UNIX <literal>$PATH</literal>
>+      environment variable, at an appropriate place.
>+    </para>
>+    <para>
>+      Since <literal>$HOME</literal> might be shared between systems
>+      of different achitectures, installing compiled binaries to
>+      <literal>$HOME</literal>/.local/bin could cause
>+      problems when used on systems of differing architectures. This
>+      is often not a problem, but the fact that
>+      <literal>$HOME</literal> becomes partially achitecture-specific
>+      if compiled binaries are placed in it should be kept in mind.
>+    </para>
>     <para>
>       <literal>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</literal> defines the preference-ordered set of
>       base directories to search for data files in addition to the
>-- 
>2.17.0
>

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