• 30p87@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Isn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?

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      7 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”.

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          7 months ago

          Nice, other distros may do it now too. It’s been a part of my .bash_local for so long I wouldn’t notice…

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            7 months ago

            Any reason why yould have it in .bash_local over .bashrc? I use zsh but even when I used bash or fish, I’d add to my $PATH via .bashrc and config.fish respectively.

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              7 months ago

              Just to simplify things when I use lots of Linux distros that create different default .bashrc files. Makes it easier to distribute via ansible this way. No other reason really.