lautan@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoTips on how to structure your home directoryunixdigest.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down13
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minus-square30p87@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·6 months agoIsn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months ago.local is a pretty recent convention for somebody who has used BeOS. I long ago just created $HOME/bin and added it to my path. And it works when I compile things with “–prefix=$HOME”.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoOpenSUSE automatically adds ~/bin and ~/.local/bin to your $PATH if they exist.
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoNice, other distros may do it now too. It’s been a part of my .bash_local for so long I wouldn’t notice…
Isn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?
.local is a pretty recent convention for somebody who has used BeOS.
I long ago just created $HOME/bin and added it to my path. And it works when I compile things with “–prefix=$HOME”.
OpenSUSE automatically adds ~/bin and ~/.local/bin to your $PATH if they exist.
Nice, other distros may do it now too. It’s been a part of my .bash_local for so long I wouldn’t notice…