At 01:00 PM 5/8/2003 -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2003 11:35:18 -0400 Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net> wrote: > Some things you have to do yourself. I don't believe many, if any, > packages create your $HOME config files. Au, contraire! While it's true that we must do some things ourselves, most of my $HOME config directories/files were created either when packages were installed or when I ran the applications.
Yes, actually running the app should create the directory. But installing it shouldn't and I've never seen it. Any hidden dirs in my $HOME are from apps I've run. Why possibly clutter up a user's dir with application dirs for something, or many things, they may never run ??
In the original poster's message, as I recall, VNC complained about not finding a .vnc directory. I would think that part of it's startup is to check for existence of ~/.vnc and if it doesn't exist, create it.
Hall