Alexander Demenshin wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:02:25PM -0400, dg50@daimlerchrysler.com wrote:
> > 3) On a related pet peeve, standardize on a ~/etc directory to store
> > user-specific configuration files/directories, instead of a billion
> > freakin' dotfiles in the user root directory
>
> This point is related nearly exclusively to user space, so it is better to discuss
> it with application developers (ha-ha, lets try to do it) :)) You just cannot force
> authors to use it with help of kernel :)
So users will have read write permission on the files?
Do we just add /etc/${USER}/ for their personalizations?
Do we do away with user customizations and enforce a system
wide configuration only?
I realy don't need my .cshrc, .Xdefaults, or .xinitrc
files anyway.
-Thomas
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