[phobos] problem solved

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

If you say "stuff should be in a /config file in someone's home" you are 
bound to confuse everyone. Prepending a slash means you are talking 
about an entry in the root. If you want to describe something in 
someone's home, say ~/config.

Andrei

On 1/28/11 2:19 PM, spir wrote:
> On 01/28/2011 08:32 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Indeed. I did not write "all users" but "all user definable config
> files". Maybe should have added a hyphen "all user-definable config
> files"? I did not mean that all users should have the same configs, lol!
> rather that user configs should be in a /config folder (inside their
> home); thus files (1) don't clutter their home folder (2) don't need be
> hidden.
>
> Denis