On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It would have been easy to avoid this: just copy the relevant bits of
the / directory hierarchy in the user's home directory. Global
settings
go in /etc and per user settings go in ~/etc. Global temp files go
into /
tmp and per user temp files go into ~/tmp. And so forth. Nice, neat
and
perfectly easy to implement and easy to deal with.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on this one.
FYI, I think what you're looking for is a Mac. It's a Unix system,
and has /etc, but that's pretty much only there for compatibility with
other Unices -- well-behaved Mac apps put global settings (and so on)
in the appropriate subfolder under /Library, with per user data in the
appropriate subfolder under ~/Library.
Cheers,
- Joe
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