On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:41:29AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Zimmerman [2006-10-31 10:30 -0800]: > > Wouldn't it be simpler and cleaner to rotate the file to .old or such, > > rather than attempting to rotate the data within the file? > > Neither Tollef nor I liked the .old idea, home directories are already > cluttered enough; and if the file already exists, we cannot really > decide whether the user copied it there or whether we can overwrite > it. OTOH Tollef didn't like to have it completely purged on session > start (what gdm does), so we agreed to this compromise.
There's plenty of precedent for rotating files this way in home directories, using both ~ and .old. Simplicity and robustness are much more important than an extra (hidden) file in the user's home directory. If the user copied it to such a name, it was very likely for the same reason that we would do so, and very unlikely that it was intended to preserve it forever. -- - mdz -- .xsession_errors file grows out of control & saturates disk space https://launchpad.net/bugs/60448 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
