XDG_BIN_HOME isn’t a standard about dirs-rs HOT 9 CLOSED

Hi Philipp!

I added what I'd say is pretty much an established pattern in the wild, there wasn't much thought put into it.

Although your question made me think about whether the whole ".local/share" thing wasn't a good idea from the start (and XDG_BIN_HOME is now further perpetuating it), and whether it would have been better to have something like XDG_LOCAL_HOME pointing to ".local" ... (I guess the XDG spec is not that great in various ways, but it's way to late to change existing things.)

Anyway: I planned on forking the whole spec into a maintained version for a while now; with better documentation that also covers best practices on macOS and Windows (unfinished website), but haven't managed the motivation to finally do it.

(Especially in the light of flatpak/flatpak.github.io#191 (comment).)

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I guess the XDG spec is not that great in various ways, but it's way to late to change existing things.

vastly better than nothing though 😄

Anyway: I planned on forking the whole spec into a maintained version for a while now; with better documentation that also covers best practices on macOS and Windows

Sounds nice, and much better than puzzling together this stuff on one’s own. But can you clarify what you mean with “I added what I'd say is pretty much an established pattern in the wild”?

Did you simply add a variable that sounds like it makes sense or are people actually using it?

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It seems quite a lof of people use ".local./bin" for applications, and some distributions have added it to $PATH. The decision to support the env variable $XDG_BIN_HOME was made based on https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2017-August/013943.html.

(There is also a proposal (mail, mail) for $XDG_STATE_HOME, but I haven't investigated this any further.)

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Yeah, I think supporting .local/bin makes a lot of sense, since it is in $PATH by default for a few linux distributions and a few programs install into there.

I personally wouldn’t start relying on a suggested standard addition from 2 years ago that since has lost steam and is supported by nobody else …

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@flying-sheep I'm closing this, as the spec has finally been updated to include XDG_BIN_HOME.

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@soc Hey, I'm currently writing a report on the whole "cargo doesn't do XDG" situation.

Do you have a link to a document stating that XDG_BIN_HOME is now standard? Neither the archilinux wiki page nor the freedesktop page mention it.

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Hey @PoignardAzur not sure to be honest. Hasn't maintenance of the spec been abandoned for like 15 years already?

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So what did you mean by this?

I'm closing this, as the spec has finally been updated to include XDG_BIN_HOME.

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Maybe I confused XDG_BIN_HOME with XDG_STATE_HOME ... 🤔

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