On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:25:06PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > --- Martin Bähr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > skrev: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN540 > > It is recommended that files be stored in > > subdirectories of /etc rather > > than directly in /etc. > > > > fish is again doing both here for no good reason. > > also here it would be nice if all files could be > > stored under /etc/fish/ > > > > > > for the home directory, it would be even nicer if > > all applications could > > store their config files under $HOME/etc/<appname>/ > > or $HOME/.etc/<appname>/ > > but unfortunately there is currently no standard for > > that (and the fhs > > won't accept this as a standard until a greater part > > of user > > applications already implements it). you could > > however be very > > progressive and implement it anyways :-) > > I could, but my honest opinion is that ~ is a pretty > sane place to store the configuration files that you > routinely want to edit. How do other people feel on > this?
If you were to go any route that involved a . directory in ~ which wasn't .fish*, I'd suggest following the freedesktop.org/XDG standards. They're pushing for a .config directory which applications could put their user specific config files. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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