On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 07:30:33PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:08:45PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm annoyed at things like ~/.libquicktime_codecs which got pulled in with a
> recent xawtv upgrade...
libquicktime does that, not xawtv.
> % ls -l .libquicktime_codecs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 joy joy 12854 2003-01-05 19:14
> .libquicktime_codecs
> % head -4 .libquicktime_codecs
> # This is the codec database file for libquicktime
> # It is automatically generated and should not be edited.
> # If you canged it, and your libquicktime program doesn't work
> # anymore, delete it, and you will get a new one
>
> Useless.
It caches information to reduce startup times. dlopen() 10 *.so files
and doing various function calls to get all the info stored in that file
takes some time ...
Gerd
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