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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 08:01:55
Message-Id: 200703190357.23716.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications by Seemant Kulleen
1 On Monday 19 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a
4 > > ~/.config/ is that it's a directory that can obviously be added to
5 > > backups or sync programs for keeping $HOME the same across multiple
6 > > machines ... you dont have to worry about having to filter large crap
7 > > like cache files, temporary files, etc...
8 >
9 > Strictly speaking, it should probably be ~/.etc/ in keeping with the
10 > rest of the filesystem naming scheme.
11
12 yeah, a mini mirror of / would be neat ... that way you could cleanly
13 differentiate between etc/ and var/lib/ and var/tmp/ and tmp/ and ...
14
15 but i guess this is something to be discussed to death on freedesktop.org ;)
16 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications Rob C <hyakuhei@g.o>