On Friday, January 28, 2011 11:26:21 spir wrote: > On 01/28/2011 08:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > You generally only want to see them if you're looking for them. > > Otherwise, they're just annoying. $HOME is typically extremely cluttered > > with hidden files on Linux, and I'd hate to be seeing all of those > > hidden normally. If I'm looking for them, I want to be able to see them > > and access them, but I definitely don't want to see them normally. Now, > > shoving them all in a .config or config directory would be a big > > improvement regardless, and maybe then hidden files wouldn't really be > > necessary. > > Exactly; there should definitely /config (for /all/ user definable config > files). That's one of the numerous points showing how the std Unix > filesystem hierarchy is designed for sysadmins, not for users ;-)
And why would I want /config for all users? The config files in $HOME are user- specific and have no business being system specific. It's /etc that has system specific config files. And maybe /config would have been a better name than /etc, but I don't think that a name change would help anything at this point. Regardless, I _want_ my user-specific settings to be user-specific. I see _zero_ benefit in putting them in /config. That makes no sense to me whatsoever. - Jonathan M Davis _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
