Hi-- After working with and promoting the use of XDG Base Directory Standard for some time (e.g. http://rubyworks.github.com/xdg), I found it useful for certain projects to generalize the whole idea of `.local`. In other works I look at `~/.local` as the per-user reflection of the system wide `/usr` directory (or `/usr/local` if you prefer). In this way I've been able to use `~/.local`, for example, as a place for per-user installation of packages, where-by `.local` contains more than just a `share` directory.
Also, this generalization was of a realization for me that really made XDG base directory standard click for me. I thought I would share this, as I have not seen anyone mention it before. Maybe this was the intention of .local all along? If not, maybe it could be useful for future versions of the standard. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
