-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 3, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
The major reasons why I think staying out of people's way by default is important: - for people like me (glyph, Georg, etc), it allows us to keep our home directory organised the way we like it. As far as I am concered, applications can store whatever user-specific configuration and data files they like inside hidden files or directories, but they shouldn't be inflicting any visible files on me that aren't related to things I am working on. - for novice users, the fact that it's hidden helps keep them from deleting it by accident - for experienced users (Barry, skip, etc) that want ~/.local to be more easily accessible, creating a visible ~/local symlink is an utterly trivial exercise.
Hey Nick, I agree with everything above, except that I'd probably put myself more in Glyph's camp :). Can't speak for Skip though...
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