On Wednesday 11 May 2011 01:40:05 am Karl Goetz wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011 09:26:39 -0400 > Randy Kramer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks to Karl Goetz, Jeff Licquia, Tollef Fog Heen and Matthew >> Miller for your comments! > Hope they helped.
And I should have added Peter who sent me some comments offline. Of course they helped--I mean, the discussion has to help--even dissent has to help--after all, we are trying to reach some sort of consensus. ;-) > > Rather than: > > "intended to organize users' home directories" > > I'd suggest it say: > > "intended to organize user's files" > > or > > "intended to organize user specific files" > > As long as its still clear it refers to the user files in their home > directory, not on $some_network_share. I'm not sure why you say that. Is it an objection to having them somewhere on a network share? Or, is it an FHS scope issue, that if they're on a network share the issue is out of the scope of FHS? (I'm a little confused about the total scope of FHS (and XDG).) Or is it that you see them (all four classes of data mentioned earlier, i.e., config data, cached data, run data, and what I like to call "real user data") as needing to be in /home? My specific goal is to get /home to hold only one of those four classes of data. The XDG Base Specification supports / allows that by allowing the user to specify directories for each of those. Those directories could all be subdirectories of /home (hidden or not, at the users option), or the user might specify them anywhere else he chooses, by, for example, setting things like $XDG_DATA_HOME to any directory of his choice. > > If I don't hear any more comments, or no negative comments in the > > next few days, I'll create a bug, or add this to bug 762. I'm > > leaning toward a separate bug as 762 is very general: > > > > Bug 762 - Summary: reconcile with freedesktop specs > > http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762 > > I'd suggest a new bug. Please let the list know when you open it so > we can have a look at the final version of your patch :) Will do! Randy Kramer _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
