su, 05-01-2003 kello 03:21, Jamin W. Collins kirjoitti: > So, what do you folks think? Would it be worth while to have a Debian > policy regarding the placement of user configuration files in a > configuration sub directory of the user's home dir?
Speaking as a user, I'd hate this change. It would mean, for example, that if my $HOME is NFS-mounted on several machines, running different versions of Debian, on some hosts programs would look for $HOME/.foo, on others they would look for $HOME/etc/foo. This isn't going to work all that well. If I had a time machine, I might go back to the 1970's and tell the Unix creators to create $HOME/etc for each user, but by now it's too late. Still speaking as a user, I'm not annoyed by a dotfile per program I use. I'm much more annoyed by all the useless dotfiles, created by programs that I run once, and never again, without even having saved a configuration, or done anything else that would require the program to save state.
