Re: Comparing FHS 2.3 and 2.1
Joey Hess writes:
>Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> 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.
>
>A few things that come to mind are:
>
> - gnome: .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome2_private, .gnome-private all in my
> home directory, some are used by multiple apps. Maybe this squeaks by
> since there are subdirs, not files?
> - WindowMaker: ~/GNUStep is not a dot file (can be made to use
> something starting with a dot, via an environment variabe)
> - offlineimap (.offlineimaprc, .offlineimaprc.py, .offlineimap/)
> - X (.Xauthority, .xinitrc, .xsession, .xsession-errors,
> .Xresources, .Xmodmap, etc) But perhaps X is more than one
> "application", dunno.
> - CVS (.cvsrc, .cvspass)
> - scummvm (.svummvmrc and .scummvm/)
> - vim (.viminfo, .vimrc, maybe .vim/)
> - zsh (.zcompdump, .zlogin, .zshenv, .zshrc)
> - ion2 (.ion2/.welcome_msg_displayed ; the filename should not start
> with a dot in order to comply)
Hmmm. Speaking as the CVS maintainer, I'm not impressed by this new
requirement. There are thousands of installations of CVS out there
using ~/.cvspass and ~/.cvsrc. Moving all those files would be a
nightmare at best; just imagine shared home space between different
Unix-like systems...
Why are the FHS people even interested in user home directories?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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