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Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1



On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> paddy wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:28:14AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > >  5)==
> > > > 
> > > > User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's
> > > > home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a "dot file"). If
> > > > an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be
> > > > placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot
> > > > directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start with the '.'
> > > > character. 
> > > > 
> > > > 	I have no idea if we comply, but this is a new requirement.
> > > 
> > > I think we do. This is common sense anyway, most applications I've seen
> > > do it that way.
> > 
> > what about ~/Desktop and friends?
> 
> I don't know if Desktop falls under the heading of being a configuration
> file or directorty. Not that I much like that directory, but like
> Maildir, it seems out of the scope of this FHS requirement.

Is ~/Desktop a "User specific configuration files for applications"?

Doesn't seem like it to me.  It and ~/Maildir are data directories.


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