Darren J Moffat wrote:
> How is ~/Library/Safari/ any different to ~/.mozilla/ and in any case if 
> you aren't that application you really have no business poking around in 
> there.
> 
> As for the ~/Library/Fonts & ~/Library/Fonts examples we already have 
> ~/.fonts/ and ~/.icons.  If there are generic places like that for other 
> data files then thats an issue for the application/framework that first 
> delivers them.

You can have either way by recording the path in a registry. Then every 
application that is interested in finding for example the fonts can look 
them up (as long as everybody agrees on which registry to use and the 
respective key, of course).

> What you are asking for is in my opinion really far out of scope for the 
> tools that put bits onto disk which is what this project is about.

You'd need to have a pkg database belonging to the user, registering the 
users installed pkg's. This database could be used to look up where the 
software went to

regards
Christof

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