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

[mike at trausch.us (Michael Trausch)]

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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