Directory for executable files

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:18 PM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 11:20:21 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:40 AM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>>>
>>> Robert Heller is correct: the "normal" place for binaries that only
>>> you use was ~/bin
>>
>> I've forgotten why, but the freedesktop.org or gnome.org developers
>> added "~/.local/bin".
>
> I'm puzzled since ".profile" does set it locally.
>
> "Per user
> Note: The dbus daemon and the user instance of systemd do not inherit
> any of the environment variables set in places like ~/.bashrc etc. This
> means that, for example, dbus activated programs like Gnome Files will
> not use them by default. See Systemd/User#Environment variables." -
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Environment_variables#Per_user

I don't follow. It doen't matter whether PATH is set by ".profile" or
a systemd-related file, "~/.local/bin" is now a standard location.
IIRC, it's mentioned in the systemd file hierarchy man page, IIRC,
and, as mentioned by Robert H, pip installs into it. I think of
"~/.local/..." and a mini, user version of "/usr/local"...