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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ nickname="joey"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2013-03-19T00:07:23Z"
+ content="""
+It seems to me that --bindir ~/bin will work, but --bindir=~/bin will not; it prevents the shell's tilde expansion from working. 
+"""]]