Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

[Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org>]

Hello,

On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:43:43PM -0400, Faré wrote:
> Dear Debian developers,
> 
> here is a proposal I submit for inclusion in the debian policy:
> 
> PROPOSAL 1: ~/.cache/${package_name}/
> PROPOSAL 2: ~/.etc/${package_name}/
> PROPOSAL 3: ~/.run/ ~/.lib/ ~/.share, etc.
> 
> 

I like your idea. But i think that i think it should be better
to follow base-dir specification from freedesktop.org. It gives exactly
the same kind of dirname, but in a more standardized way.

Take a look at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fbasedir_2dspec

Kind regard
Sylvain Le Gall