<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-6047760684076350215WordSection1">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.<div>XDG_BIN_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/bin</div><div>XDG_CONFIG_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/etc (currently ~/.config although I feel this is more logical)</div><div>XDG_DATA_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/share</div><div>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 RegardsMarc Boocha </div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">From: <a href="mailto:mzkqt@0pointer.de" target="_blank">Lennart Poettering</a> Sent: 30 August 2017 16:23 To: <a href="mailto:josh@joshtriplett.org" target="_blank">Josh Triplett</a> Cc: <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] basedir: Add XDG_BIN_HOME</div> On Di, 29.08.17 13:20, Josh Triplett (<a href="mailto:josh@joshtriplett.org" target="_blank">josh@joshtriplett.org</a>) 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 <<a href="mailto:josh@joshtriplett.org" target="_blank">josh@joshtriplett.org</a>>> > 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, henceI might commit this eventually (ping me in two weeks about this ifnobody else took care of this yet). However, before that happens Ithink we should wait for more replies, maybe others have opinionsabout this too, for example I am interested in Allison Lortie'sopinions on this (added to CC), I know she has some interest in thebasedir stuff, too. Allison, any chance you can comment? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat_______________________________________________xdg mailing list<a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a><a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </div></div></div> </div>