On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 19:48 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 19:13 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > > Something that I ran this morning decided to pollute my home directory > > > creating the following directories: > > > Desktop/ > > > Documents/ > > > Download/ > > > Music/ > > > Pictures/ > > > Public/ > > > Templates/ > > > Videos/ > > > > > > I haven't figured out what it is yet, but Debian needs to be more > > > respectful of the way I organize my home directory (which doesn't use > > > any of these) and not create any of these automatically. > > > > > > If anyone knows what package(s) are responsible for this, please clone > > > or reassign this bug to those packages. > > > > The package responsible for creating those directories is xdg-users-dirs. > > I’m not completely sure. Nautilus seems able to create them without > xdg-user-dirs installed (which also means we could drop the Recommends). > > Anyway, these are standard directories defined by the freedesktop.org > specification. The document also describes how to override the > locations, so I don’t think it’s doing anything wrong. Bug #487842 is a similar bug, and relates to circumstances under which iceweasel/firefox creates the ~/Desktop directory. xdg-user-dirs might possibly create the whole list of directories, but it would seem to want to do so on login. I'm seeing these directories recreated more intermittently than that, which means something else is triggering the creation. --Ken
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