Em Sex, 2003-06-27 às 02:14, Adam Majer escreveu: > Then they should't delete anything with .* After all, shoudn't most > "user friendly" applications hide those directories in the first place? > Even ls does it unless you use -a
But the question is: These files and directories uses a lot of disk space... And today we have to clean another user's home, because there is no way to a newbie to clean it, because that demands a certain knowledge of the operating system and the packages that are installed. P.S.: think of an office with diskless stations running debian with the home over nfs and the authentication over nis, in this way we have to set a low quota, because we don't have much space in the hd. > Furthermore, this is what a system admin is for. If something is broken, > they can fix it remotely. I don't expect that a system admin even touch my home directory. > > And anyway, this doesn't need to be made in one day, think about > > debconf, there are packages that still doesn't use it and nobody died. > > I think that the two things are very different. debconf is not used by the > end user. I was not talking about this. I was talking about the risk of this proposal. > On the other hand, if someone is using Debian as a desktop and doesn't know > how to upgrade it (and probably doesn't want to upgrade it too often) > they will never run into the problem of run-away dot-files/dirs. Unless the user needs to keep its disk space below the quota.