On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:22:57 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> For a *Personal Computer*, $HOME is a zoo, and I either have to live > with it, reorganize it only to get broken again with the next major > upgrade, or violate FHS. Right from the beginning, I've always thought of $HOME as the place where my software keeps its stuff. My software, not me. It got horrifying when I kept installing, trying, and uninstalling software.. most of which left behind dotfiles and dotdirs that may or may not remind me of the name of some program. (I hated wondering if some object was necessary or just clutter) After several dozen dotfiles appeared, I learned to identify and migrate items I cared about and reference each with a symlink. Then after blowing away a distribution and installing something new, I would rebuild the symlinks pointing to that other partition/drive. The programs would have a version similar enough to cope with re-using the dotfiles. This was essential in my experiments with many, many programs and distributions. I do recognize that the leading dot can distinguish things from my own stuff, but it feels like software can stomp around in that tree and I don't trust it with my data. Of course since then there are intrusion detection systems and the like, but that's complexity creeping in. etckeeper would have been spectacular had it been around back when I was in my youthful experimentation phase. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
