Public bug reported:
I would like to move the contents of ~/.steam to a different location (so all
this stuff won't be backupped). That shuld be easily doable by symlinking
~/.steam to the new location.
However, the script /usr/games/steam explicitly does a "test -d ~/.steam",
which fails if ~/.steam is a symlink to a directory. Specifically, it performs
the following test:
test ! -d $config && rm -rf $config && mkdir -p $config || true
The rm -rf seems rather unwise to me: everything in the users home dir
belongs to the user, and never ever should anything there be deleted
automatically.
Still, if you really want to do this, please make the check "test $(stat
-L --printf=%F $config)='directory'" instead of a simple "test -d", to
allow users to replace ~/.steam with a symlink to location more suitable
to their local system setup.
** Affects: steam (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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impossible to move steam dir out of /home
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