On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:08:45PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > 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.
Hear, hear. I forgot about that in my earlier reply, but it would seriously affect me at work, where I use two releases of Debian, Debian unstable, various other GNU/Linux distributions, and at least half a dozen brands of proprietary Unix. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
