On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 12:05 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > I was hoping (& expecting) that would be controlled via a > env var but it does not seem that way - which makes me > wonder - that must the software which knows/chooses '.local' > internally or might ignore that all rogether and use own > path(s), if it is not the OS providing that information? hmm..
I think it's only a more recent custom that we have some common dot folders (e.g. ~/.cache, ~/.config ~/.local). It seems like it's a suggestion from some people that it might be more organised that application programmers put certain kinds of things inside such folders, rather than there being a variable that says what the local system uses. Many applications have their own hidden folders right in the users homespace (~/.mozilla, ~/.thunderbird, and a myriad more), which seems to be the more traditional approach. Though some splatter their bits in more than one place. For instance, Firefox puts its cache within subfolders in ~/.cache yet its config is within ~/.mozilla (in some sort of half-support of that common hidden folder kind of scheme which doesn't seem so well implemented, to me). There's some sense in having cached things all in a .cache, and all configs in a .config, as a structured approach. There's also some sense in having all of a programs whatsits within just one common dot hidden folder, as a more simplified approach. I'm guessing that a ~/.local folder was an idea as an opposite of a "remote" storage location. I think like all things Linux, getting a consensus is a near impossibility. A distro could set a house standard of doing it one way, another might take a different approach. And programmers may tailor packages to suit each distro or decide that's too much of a headache to deal with (which the current trend of flat packs and app images seem to suggest - standalone blobs that are not very distro conforming). -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
