On Monday, 2012-12-03, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 3 December 2012 10:08, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What if tools in the program remember their configuration? Losing the > > > > > > parameter set for one tool would not make me cry, however, losing all > > > of them would. > > > > How likely is it that those two paths are on different media and one > > having a > > higher failure rate than the other? > > Most setups don't have $XDG_DATA_HOME or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME set so their > > defaults apply, meaning they are $HOME/.local/share and $HOME/.config > > respectively. > > Again, most setups have $HOME or even its parent directory on the same > > volume. > > Kevin, the discussion about losing files relates to what you back up. To > summarise the blog post: data files are a priority to back up, config may > be backed up but it's not important to do so, and cache isn't worth backing > up.
Ah, I see. So totally irrelevant for the discussion at hand. I was really puzzled by that and couldn't get rid of the feeling that there was some mixup of cache-home and config-home. Thanks for clarifying. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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