Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

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On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 22:30:23 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os 
> directory, and use symlinks to the built files from their 
> appropriate source directories. This way I can test changes 
> without having to create a new installation somewhere.

It's much cleaner to use $HOME/bin for that purpose and not touch 
the /usr/bin, which is supposed to be managed by the package 
manager. At least openSUSE prepends $HOME/bin at the front of 
PATH, I believe Ubuntu does the same.