Bug 789011 - ~/bin should be added to the path if it exists
Summary: ~/bin should be added to the path if it exists
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-09 15:21 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-09 20:01:18 UTC
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Description Allison Karlitskaya 2012-02-09 15:21:40 UTC 
Debian machines have a long history of checking for ~/bin and adding it to the path if it exists.  This is a great place to put tools like jhbuild.

Fedora doesn't do this.  Perhaps it should.  It would make instructions about how to install and use jhbuild quite a lot easier.
Comment 1 Dennis Gilmore 2012-02-09 20:01:18 UTC 
/etc/skel/.bash_profile which is the standard .bash_profile template in fedora contains 

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
	. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin

export PATH


Its already added to the users $PATH though it is added at the end.
Comment 2 Allison Karlitskaya 2012-02-09 22:30:44 UTC 
lulz.  I saw that there and I just assumed that I had added that for myself.

Sorry for the noise.
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