On Wed, 11 May 2011 06:53:39 -0400 Randy Kramer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 May 2011 01:40:05 am Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2011 09:26:39 -0400 > > Randy Kramer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Rather than: > > > "intended to organize users' home directories" > > > I'd suggest it say: > > > "intended to organize user's files" > > > or > > > "intended to organize user specific files" > > > > As long as its still clear it refers to the user files in their home > > directory, not on $some_network_share. > > I'm not sure why you say that. Is it an objection to having them > somewhere on a network share? Or, is it an FHS scope issue, that if > they're on a network share the issue is out of the scope of FHS? sorry if i wasn't clear. right or wrong, what i was trying to convey was: As long as the document is specific about referring to homes, wherever they are. > My specific goal is to get /home to hold only one of those four > classes of data. The XDG Base Specification supports / allows that > by allowing the user to specify directories for each of those. Those > directories could all be subdirectories of /home (hidden or not, at > the users option), or the user might specify them anywhere else he > chooses, by, for example, setting things like $XDG_DATA_HOME to any > directory of his choice. I'm still not sure i see a benefit to moving all these datasets outside $HOME, but if the admin wants to do so i'm not going to move to stop them. As such i'd go with your second suggested wording (and leave the details to xdg and freedesktop to fight out). > > > If I don't hear any more comments, or no negative comments in the > > > next few days, I'll create a bug, or add this to bug 762. I'm > > > leaning toward a separate bug as 762 is very general: > > > > > > Bug 762 - Summary: reconcile with freedesktop specs > > > http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762 > > > > I'd suggest a new bug. Please let the list know when you open it so > > we can have a look at the final version of your patch :) > > Will do! thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
