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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:46:55
Message-Id: 200703190341.54298.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications by Simon Stelling
1 On Sunday 18 March 2007, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > > Many applications save preferences in ~/.<app>/. When testing
4 > > applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
5 > > cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
6 >
7 > Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/<app> instead, so they don't
8 > clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
9
10 i assume you mean of course to get our devs to get upstream to conform to
11 freedesktop.org standards ... i like that a lot ;)
12 -mike