Re: /home/user/var ?

[Me <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com>]

--- James <polyma@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Would it make sense to place a 'var/' in every user
> account?
> The use of dot notation to hide application specific
> files and
> directories is silly.  If the reason is to hide
> those files from
> standard 'ls' calls, then putting the files in a var
> directory is just
> as effective.  The advantage of a directory is that
> application files
> would be easier to browse and manage, etc.  Dealing
> with hidden files is
> a pain.
> 
> Actually, is there ever a reason to use hidden
> files?  Isn't it always
> better to put the files in a directory and give the
> directory the
> appropriate permissions?

> PS.  Hurd is getting this posting because Hurd
> doesn't have 30 years of
> tradition to break :)
> 
> Thanks, 
> James Bergstra
> 
Don't you mean etc, so each user would have his/her
own ~/etc directory.  I like this idea since
a user/administrator could just symlink their etc
to /etc to use the system wide ones by default.

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