Re: /.kde and /.gnome* - policy?

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Christian Marillat wrote:
> 
> >>>> "ES" == Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Which /.gnome* files ?
> 
> ES>   following directories were created somewhere along the lines of
> ES> installing and using (very briefly) gnome:
> 
> ES>   /.gnome
> ES>   /.gnome/accels
> ES>   /.gnome_private
> 
> All these directories are created when you run gnome for the firts time. If
> these directories are there, then you have a configuration problem.

  well, I don't think so since it's fairly vanilla system (fresh
install), with very few tweaks...

  what exactly does it mean run the gnome for the first time? any gnome
program? control center? session manager?

> ES>   there are no further directories/files under these.
> 
> ES>   I installed potato and later on changed it to to testing and even
> ES> later on changed it to unstable. this all happened few days before
> ES> 3/10/2001 (when I posted original message), so these are not oldproblem
> ES> (unlike /.kde which was on old computer and is already fixed)
> 
> ES>   there are also .gnome and /.gnome_private directoreis under /root, so
> ES> the ones under / are not root's (I guess)
> 
> If somebody other than root can write files here (/) you have a big problem.

  I believe it was written by installation scripts, I just don't know
which one.

	erik