On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:37:07AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I like the idea. I vote for ~/etc, though, not ~/.etc; there's little > point hiding this one directory name if it is going to contain all of > the configuration data. Of course there is a lot of software out > there which doesn't use it (yet), and it may well confuse users. > > Maybe ask on the FHS list for comments, too?
Looks like an identical suggestion was made there a few months ago: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1791001 -- Jamin W. Collins