Fwd: why not XDG_PREFIX_HOME
Marc Boocha <[email protected]>
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Instead having an XDG_BIN_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, we should have a single XDG_PREFIX_HOME. This will be located as ~/.local. Since make install or package manger normal produce these directories, have separate environmental variables is not needed. XDG_BIN_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/bin XDG_CONFIG_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/etc (currently ~/.config although I feel this is more logical) XDG_DATA_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/share This conserves the number of environmental variable used and makes it easy to add extensions like headers and libraries. Also since XDG_BIN_DIRS is same as PATH, why is it even needed Regards Marc Boocha *From: *Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> *Sent: *30 August 2017 16:23 *To: *Josh Triplett <[email protected]> *Cc: *[email protected] *Subject: *Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] basedir: Add XDG_BIN_HOME On Di, 29.08.17 13:20, Josh Triplett ([email protected]) wrote: > 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. Looks fine to me too. IIRC I have commit access to the git repo, hence I might commit this eventually (ping me in two weeks about this if nobody else took care of this yet). However, before that happens I think we should wait for more replies, maybe others have opinions about this too, for example I am interested in Allison Lortie's opinions on this (added to CC), I know she has some interest in the basedir stuff, too. Allison, any chance you can comment? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg