Re: /home/user/var ?
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Me wrote:
> --- 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.
Or to have both ~/etc for config
and ~/var for mailbox or netscape cache
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