Hello,
Some applications that are currently included on the LiveCD read configuration from two places: a system-wide configuration file and a user-specific one. E.g., xterm can be configured either in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm or in /root/.Xdefaults. Which way is preferred for LiveCD purposes?
Well, now that all directories are 'writable' and squashed, it doesn't seem to make too much of a difference. Previously, I stored them in /root so that a user could make changes if he/she wanted.
The thing that would determine it now, I suppose, would be considering if a user is likely to create other users on the cd, and whether or not we'd want them to have the same defaults. For that we could make a skeleton directory, but that seems to me to just duplicate data, and on a cd that's not so good.
So, let's keep configuration in the system-wide location, *unless* there's a good reason to place a specific config file in the home directory instead.
Thanks,
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