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On 19/03/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Monday 19 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a |
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> > > ~/.config/ is that it's a directory that can obviously be added to |
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> > > backups or sync programs for keeping $HOME the same across multiple |
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> > > machines ... you dont have to worry about having to filter large crap |
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> > > like cache files, temporary files, etc... |
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> > Strictly speaking, it should probably be ~/.etc/ in keeping with the |
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> > rest of the filesystem naming scheme. |
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> yeah, a mini mirror of / would be neat ... that way you could cleanly |
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> differentiate between etc/ and var/lib/ and var/tmp/ and tmp/ and ... |
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> but i guess this is something to be discussed to death on freedesktop.org;) |
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> -mike |
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Like many things in life, I think the use of ~/.config is ideal but |
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generally unworkable. There is no real reason not to use it. |
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Compartmentalisation and segmentation of file structures is the whole |
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paradigm on which any FS is based. |
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However my reason for hating ~/.<app> configurations is that the GTK file |
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chooser dialog lists these "hidden" directories in its standard usage, which |
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makes scrolling through 30-40 lines of directories an unnecessary PITA for |
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every time I want to Save/Open a file. |
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[Note, Where I have used ~/.config substitute in the relevant XDG standard |
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env.] |
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Just my two Centimes. |
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Cheers |
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Rob |
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