Jamie Zawinski wrote: > That's a completely reasonable place to put it. No, it's annoying and it violates the FHS. Dot-files have to be created in ~/ , not in ~/somewhere/ .
From http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#HOMEUSERHOMEDIRECTORIES | Requirements | | User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the | user's home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a | "dot file"). If an application needs to create more than one dot file | then they should be placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a | '.' character, (a "dot directory"). In this case the configuration files | should not start with the '.' character. [11] | | [11] It is recommended that apart from autosave and lock files programs | should refrain from creating non dot files or directories in a home | directory without user intervention. One could argue that .cache is not a configuration file. That's correct, but it's a dot file and creating some (dot or non-dot) files somewhere below /home/ without user intervention would be even worse. Another adequate location of the cache file would be ~/.cache/xscreensaver/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
