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[Help] go and perl5 folders in ~/
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RE Go: Others have already mentioned the right way, thought I'd personally prefer
~/opt/go
over what was suggested.RE Perl: To instruct Perl to install to another directory, for example to
~/opt/perl5
, put the following lines somewhere in your bash init files.Though you need to re-install the Perl packages you had previously installed.
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I didn't like the capitalised names so configured xdg to use all lowercase letters. That's why
~/opt
fits in pretty nicely.You've got a point re
~/.local/opt
but I personally like the idea of having the important bits right in my home dir. Here's my layout (which I'm quite used to now after all these years):where
bin
is just a bunch of symlinks to frequently used apps fromopt
src
is where i keep clones of repos (but I don't do work insrc
)workspace
is a where I do my work on git worktrees (based offsrc
)