Re: directory names for configuration files
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:14, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 14:46 schrieb Derek Broughton:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 08:06, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > > I just looked at the chosen names and do not understand the reason for
> > > it: - Why is it /etc/kde3 but ~/.kde?
>
> I meant whey they have different names in /etc and home (hidden files are
> normal and good). Keeping the /etc/kde2 around results in never removing
> them, even on a purge? I do not quite understand why there not a
> simple /etc/kde. Keeping backup of the old files is part of the
> administrator job, not the package maintainers duty.
It's a fair argument, but I've listened to too many administrators complain
that there was no way to back out of a change. When it's as big a change as
kde3, it makes sense. I don't remember now how I got rid of the kde2 files -
I think I manually removed them at some point.
>
> > > - Why are the .DCOP* files not in ~/.kde? Does anything else use dcop?
> >
> > Anything else _can_. I don't know what else does.
>
> As long as it's not standardized at freedesktop.org, nothing else than KDE
> will use it.
First you have to demonstrate how useful it is, then you have to convince the
other people it's a worthwhile standard, _then_ they start to use it.
> > > - Why does ~/.kpackage exist?
> >
> Hmm, knode does not use it's own directory but uses .kde/share/apps/knode,
> kpackage oddity/bug, it seems.
Good point. I have only two kde apps with their own directory directly under
my home, and the other one was a game that's long since been removed.
--
derek
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