pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
Adding ~/.local/bin to the PATH is common on other distros.
This is what still needs to be established: is it? Which ones? Is it merely a side-effect of them using systemd? And most crucially: does it mean that Guix needs to add it too? What about ~/bin?
I'm was just interested in the (ideally: your) arguments for doing so, not a link to a discussion site. If it really breaks things that should work, I'm all in favour of adding it to the default skeleton, if not /etc/profile itself.
When compiling and installing software as a user without making a package for it, I want to configure it with --prefix=$HOME/.local so I caninstall without sudo. Then I want to be able to run: myprog instead of PATH=$HOME/.local/bin myprog
You can already easily add custom directories to $PATH in your .bash_profile, if my understanding of bash's complicated set of configuration files is still accurate. That's where I set it, anyway:
~ λ grep PATH= .bash_profile PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
and it's always worked fine. :-) Kind regards, T G-R
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