Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:40:42AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Of course the clean solution would be to signal to the tools not to look >> and write into HOME, but it's hardly realistic to assume that all tools >> used (an ever increasing and changing

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > >> > > However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. >> > > Many programs create ~/.progname directories wh

Re: Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 à 08:20 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : > Something similar should be done with package installations... I hate > that my /root is cluttered with .gconf, .anthy, .gnome, .gnupg, .qt ... > while I never run that kind of software as root... As for .gconf, GConf schemas are n

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:40:42AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Of course the clean solution would be to signal to the tools not to look > and write into HOME, but it's hardly realistic to assume that all tools > used (an ever increasing and changing set) will always follow such a > rule. Therefor

Re: Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-11 Thread Frank Küster
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Yes, that's the ideal solution. In the real world, my suggestion may >> improve the situation faster. >> >> Just got an other idea, slower too, but makes the "ideal so

Re: Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's the ideal solution. In the real world, my suggestion may > improve the situation faster. > > Just got an other idea, slower too, but makes the "ideal solution" more > realistic: Someone writes a tool

Re: Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Frank Küster
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. >> Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time >> - and these directories contain configur

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > "general" is not the best package to report this to, but since there's > no "buildd" package, and I don't want it to be completely forgotten, > I'll report it here. I'm quoting from a bugrepo

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Jackson
On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. > Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time > - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause > trouble, si

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Küster
Package: general Severity: wishlist "general" is not the best package to report this to, but since there's no "buildd" package, and I don't want it to be completely forgotten, I'll report it here. I'm quoting from a bugreport where we came across this, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi