On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:27:50PM +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > --- > Dropped XDG_BIN_DIRS and add note about architecture-specificity of HOME > due to XDG_BIN_HOME.
This version of the proposal looks great to me, and thank you for working on this. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> If this gets accepted, I would be happy to help work with various projects to incorporate support for it. Unlike the other variables, I think this only needs special support from software that *installs* binaries to $XDG_BIN_HOME (falling back to ~/.local/bin), and not software that just wants to access such files (for which it should use $PATH). I don't think this needs to be put in the standard, but people who want to make $HOME less architecture-specific might want to set $XDG_BIN_HOME to a path that includes the architecture triple, similar to multiarch library paths. > basedir/basedir-spec.xml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml > index eefbe2b..9d001d8 100644 > --- a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml > +++ b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml > @@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ > </address> > </affiliation> > </author> > + <author> > + <firstname>Johannes</firstname> > + <surname>Löthberg</surname> > + <affiliation> > + <address> > + <email>[email protected]</email> > + </address> > + </affiliation> > + </author> > </authorgroup> > </articleinfo> > > @@ -66,6 +75,13 @@ > environment variable <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</literal>. > </para> > </listitem> > + <listitem> > + <para> > + There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific > + executable files should be written. This directory is defined by > the > + environment variable <literal>$XDG_BIN_HOME</literal>. > + </para> > + </listitem> > <listitem> > <para> > There is a set of preference ordered base directories relative to > @@ -122,6 +138,18 @@ > <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</literal> is either not set or empty, a > default equal to > <literal>$HOME</literal>/.config should be used. > </para> > + <para> > + <literal>$XDG_BIN_HOME</literal> defines the base directory relative to > + which user-specific executable files should be stored. If > + <literal>$XDG_BIN_HOME</literal> is either not set or empty, a default > equal to > + <literal>$HOME</literal>/.local/bin should be used. > + </para> > + <para> > + Since <literal>$HOME</literal> might be shared between systems of > different achitectures, > + installing compiled binaries to <literal>$XDG_BIN_HOME</literal> could > cause problems when > + used on systems of differing architectures. This is often not a > problem, but the fact that > + <literal>$HOME</literal> becomes partially achitecture-specific should > be kept in mind. > + </para> > <para> > <literal>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</literal> defines the preference-ordered set of > base directories to search for data files in addition to the > -- > 2.14.1 > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
