[phobos] problem solved

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, January 28, 2011 11:26:21 spir wrote:
> 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 ;-)

And why would I want /config for all users? The config files in $HOME are user-
specific and have no business being  system specific. It's /etc that has system 
specific config files. And maybe /config would have been a better name than /etc, 
but I don't think that a  name change would help anything at this point. 
Regardless, I _want_ my user-specific settings to be user-specific. I see _zero_ 
benefit in putting them in /config. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

- Jonathan M Davis