On 10/6/06, Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:06:21PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > I don't like the idea of having two standard user configuration files > > at all, I'm afraid. I'd rather have only ~/.config/fish/fish than > > both. > > fair point. i agree. > > > Sorry, I'll try to be less humor impaired in the future. :-) > > lol, no worries :-) > > > There are just no non-silly cases where you > > don't want your init files. > > [ to be converted ] > > are you sure about no non-silly cases? > what about someone sharing their homework on a network drive and having > different versions of fish on either machine?
The nice and friendly warning will tell them what happened, and they can copy the files back. That way, they've lost nothing, though I'll admit they've also gained nothing in that particular case. > > > That said, the user actually needs to know of the new file locations, > > so I would suggest that when the files are automatically moved, a > > large verbose message explaining the new file locations is shown in > > this special case. > > on debian it is a general no-no to muck around with users config files > without their acknoledgement. A sympathise, but I would argue that simply moving a file is not so much mucking around as gently poking. > > since i am anticipating the change of course i won't be surprised about > it so i won't complain to much, i am just concerned that there are other > non-silly cases out there. (we may also just have a different > understanding of what is non-silly) If you can come up with a few more cases that are non-silly in your eyes, feel free to run them by me. I have been known to change my mind whenever there is a wind is blowing on the moon. > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix > offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
