[phobos] problem solved

spir denis.spir at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 11:26:21 PST 2011


On 01/28/2011 08:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> You generally only want to see them if you're looking for them. Otherwise,
> they're just annoying. $HOME is typically extremely cluttered with hidden files
> on Linux, and I'd hate to be seeing all of those hidden normally. If I'm looking
> for them, I want to be able to see them and access them, but I definitely don't
> want to see them normally. Now, shoving them all in a .config or config directory
> would be a big improvement regardless, and maybe then hidden files wouldn't
> really be necessary.

Exactly; there should definitely /config (for /all/ user definable config 
files). That's one of the numerous points showing how the std Unix filesystem 
hierarchy is designed for sysadmins, not for users ;-)

Denis
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