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~/.local/bin is missing in default PATH on Guix System

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 35864 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35864: ~/.local/bin is missing in default PATH on Guix System
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 17:31:38 +0200

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:17:38PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> writes:
> 
> > ~/.local/bin should be added to the PATH environment variable by
> > default, see
> > <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316765/which-distributions-have-home-local-bin-in-path>.
> 
> They say that this is specified in the systemd file-hierarchy
> specification.  We already ignore most of this specification (see any
> entry mentioning /usr, for example).
> 
> I think we can safely ignore this specification.
> 


Adding ~/.local/bin to the PATH is common on other distros.  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 can
install without sudo.  Then I want to be able to run:

myprog

instead of

PATH=$HOME/.local/bin myprog

In particular, I want instructions to work on all distros, even though
Debian failed/fails to do this at the moment too.

Regards,
Florian

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