[ale] User-specific software installation. ~/bin vs ~/.local/bin vs ??

[Jim Kinney]

does ~/.pr0n count as a "software repo"?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> I use ~/bin for single/standalone scripts, and I use ~/.local as a
> prefix for things that I build and install into my home directory.
> The latter seems to be a relatively new convention, and I like it.
> Before I started using ~/.local as a prefix, I was using ~/sw as a
> prefix (for, of course, "software").
>
>  --- mike
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:49, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When you install software specific to your user (as many third party
> > game installers want to do by default, and many `make` processes are
> > capable of doing if so instructed), where do you put it? I have an
> > entire root hierarchy in ~/.local (that is, ~/.local/bin ~/.local/var
> > ~/.local/usr ~/.local/etc etc) that I let such things install to. I've
> > encountered other people who simply have ~/bin ~/etc ~/opt etc. Are
> > there other schemes? Are there any standards on this matter?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I have a ~/bin on the multiple machines that I grep through for scripts
> of
> >> interest. Sadly it's all very, very specific so of no use on any other
> >> system.
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