[fhs-discuss] Split home directory for each user into two parts

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Matthew Miller 

| On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:26:21AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
| > I think it would help lots of people (obviously, myself) if the ~ 
| > directory for each user was split into two parts.  (This could be done 
| > in a variety of ways, more below.)
| > The basic idea is to get rid of the hidden files.  One way or another, 
| 
| This is an interesting idea, but I think it's outside of the scope of the
| FHS. And, it would require vast changes to a huge number of programs.

If you want to push for this, something like the XDG Base Directory
specification[1] seems like a better fit.

[1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

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Tollef Fog Heen
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