Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> writes:
I changed the subject, because the points I will mention down, are more about the policies openSUSE follows. Who finally decides how openSUSE should look like and where is the discussion of this going on?
jdd schrieb:
I think there is a misunderstanding of what is your home. In fact there two very different parts. * your own work, datas, documents. This should be on an other parttion. Many advantages, very easy backups, for examples. * the config data of apps (all the "." files) This last part can be very different from an install to an other.
This is a very important point. And it was a dark moment in Unix history, when somebody decided, that user configuration should go into dot-files in the user's home directory.
I don't know, if openSUSE is the correct location to change this. Is there any discussion about this on FSH or LSB?
It belongs to FHS and there was once a proposal. But currently there's no discussion going on. In general FHS tries to document existing practice and not invent new stuff, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126