[PATCH] binman: Avoid requiring a home directory on startup

[Simon Glass]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 14:23, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> > From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:59:46 -0700
> >
> > This is needed to download tools, but we may not need to do this. At
> > present binman fails to start if HOME is not set.
> >
> > Use the current directory as a default to avoid this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>
> Not new, but $HOME/bin seems like an *extremely* poor choice for a
> directory to download random binaries from the internet into as this
> directory is often part of a user's $PATH.

But isn't that the point? It is designed to bring in tools for use by the user.

Regards,
Simon