On Fri, May 25, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > ~/.local/bin is user-writeable. If ~/.local was on PATH or by default, > it could potentially preempt/modify the behavior of system libraries > and binaries; which is a security risk. I've heard this argument before, and it doesn't stand up, because files like .profile and .bashrc are user writable, and you can use those to add a directory to PATH (among many other things). You may be able to come up with some corner case where it's possible to modify ~/.local/bin but not ~/.profile, but it's pretty clear that this is a post-hoc rationalisation, not a real reason. It's like that, I strongly suspect, just because that's how it's been forever, and the people who are inconvenienced by it know how to work around it. Thomas
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