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Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance



On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:

> I think that this would be more suitable for the Upstream Guide
> (https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide).  The Debian Policy focuses on how to
> integrate works in Debian, so if being XDG-compliant or not does not make a
> difference, then I think that there is no need to mention this standard.

Good point. I've added a section on user home directories to the UG,
pointing out the XDG spec and the libraries that support it.

https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#User_home_directories

I also put a paragraph about the HOME environment variable and falling
back to getpwuid.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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