on Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:54:27PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:05:39PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> [2004.11.19.1802 +0100]:
> > > Umm.. So if I have an NFS-shared $HOME, that I share between
> > > Debian, various BSDs and commercial Unixes, I'll have to resort to
> > > black magic to get some of my dotfiles appear where they need to,
> > > on all of the systems I'm using them?
> >
> > Use symlinks.
>
> Or how about we all get a grip and stop making changes for the sake of
> changes when the present situation works perfectly well and
> interoperates well?
$ ls -d . | wc -l
221
...note that that includes . & .., so we're talking 219 dotfiles and
directories.
Frankly, I'd like to see a $HOME cleanup. Dotfiles are hard to manage,
there are possible conflicts between packages and user files, and it's
tough just to come up with a good directory list recipie to show, say,
just dotfiles and directories, excluding . and .., on the command line,
without resorting to filters and/or pipes.
I agree that policy is rather blunt for this to happen, but the desire
needs to be expressed somewhere.
The one change I'd make is for $HOME/etc rather than $HOME/.etc. It's
already common practice to have ~/bin and ~/tmp directories, frequently
others. Reflecting /usr's top level, with bin, etc, var, tmp, lib, and
var might be the best way to go.
Peace.
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