Dear Debian Policy Maintainers, Policy section 9.1.1 (File System Structure) [0] talks about per-user configuration files and says: «It is recommended that such files start with the '.' character (a "dot file"), and if an application needs to create more than one dot file then the preferred placement is in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot directory")».
As you probably know, there is now a trend [2][3] of placing all configuration files into the same directory, which defaults to ~/.config/ but can be changed, as well as two separate directories for user data and recoverable/non-important data (~/.local/share, ~/.cache). This is described in the XDG Base Directory specification [1], and I believe it is a big advancement in terms of cleaning up the mess that home directories have become and has the added benefit of separating data you may want to backup (config, data) from random junk (cache). I'd like to suggest the quoted policy statement be updated to recommend, or at least mention, said specification. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html [2] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders [3] http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy Kind regards, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 P.S.: Please keep me CC'd since I'm not subscribed to this list. P.S.2: I'm sorry if this has already been discussed before. I've tried doing a search on debbug and this mailing lists' archives and it didn't turn up anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
