[PATCH v2 2/2] basedir: Add XDG_BIN_HOME

---
Dropped XDG_BIN_DIRS and add note about architecture-specificity of HOME 
due to XDG_BIN_HOME.

 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

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