on Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:54:27PM +0000, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:05:39PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> [2004.11.19.1802 +0100]: > > > Umm.. So if I have an NFS-shared $HOME, that I share between > > > Debian, various BSDs and commercial Unixes, I'll have to resort to > > > black magic to get some of my dotfiles appear where they need to, > > > on all of the systems I'm using them? > > > > Use symlinks. > > Or how about we all get a grip and stop making changes for the sake of > changes when the present situation works perfectly well and > interoperates well? $ ls -d . | wc -l 221 ...note that that includes . & .., so we're talking 219 dotfiles and directories. Frankly, I'd like to see a $HOME cleanup. Dotfiles are hard to manage, there are possible conflicts between packages and user files, and it's tough just to come up with a good directory list recipie to show, say, just dotfiles and directories, excluding . and .., on the command line, without resorting to filters and/or pipes. I agree that policy is rather blunt for this to happen, but the desire needs to be expressed somewhere. The one change I'd make is for $HOME/etc rather than $HOME/.etc. It's already common practice to have ~/bin and ~/tmp directories, frequently others. Reflecting /usr's top level, with bin, etc, var, tmp, lib, and var might be the best way to go. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Burn all gifs! Use PNG and tell Unisys to go to hell: http://burnallgifs.org/
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