I would *love* to overload $HOME with other more exacting environment
variable. Something like $USERDATA, $USERCONFIG, etc... They could
fall back to $HOME if they weren't defined.
I have no idea what can and can't be deleted in my home folder - I
shudder to think what will happen when hard drive space stops growing...
On 12/05/2006 10:30 AM, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
Thomas Güttler wrote:
If email is stored under $HOME the path to the
inbox directory should be $HOME/Maildir/Inbox/.
This breaks the Maildir standard. We also can't know if the user is
using mbox or Maildir or MH-Maildir for their mail files, so it'll have
a different on-disk format and a different folder/naming structure.
Every MUA and MDA uses a different default location. It would
be good to have a recommendation.
In the Maildir base directory (~/Maildir) all directories which don't
contain a maildir directory must start with a dot. This means all
index files must start with a dot. The index file for "myfolder",
should be beginn with ".myfolder."
Background: I tried some MUAs, and now the maildir base directory
contains a lot of index files. That's annoying if you use e.g. mutt,
which displays all the index files, too.
Then mutt is broken, or misconfigured.
To avoid too many dot-files and dot-directories under $HOME,
applications can use $HOME/.etc/myapp/. If ~/.etc/ is used, "myapp"
must be a directory.
Look at the XDG Basedir spec (on freedesktop.org). It defines
~/.config/ and ~/.cache/, among other things. Unfortunately, few apps
actually implement this standard with regard to storing config files in
$HOME.
-brian
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