Thus said Stephan Beal on Wed, 21 May 2014 18:49:21 +0200:

> i'll admit to having uninstalled apps  which have violated my sense of
> propriety,  but an  extra  file in  my  home dir  is  not (because  of
> the  Unix history  behind it)  one of  those proprieties.  "Historical
> momentum"  wins here,  i  think,  and Unix  has  -lots- of  historical
> momentum.

I might add  that Apple decided to  inherit all of Unix  history when it
used a Unix-like OS as it's  base, including the fact that user-oriented
configuration files go in $HOME/.dot-file :-)

Andy
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