Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 00:24 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin a écrit : >> WTF? Since when fd.o decides how should I organize _my home_ directory? The >> package (some) didn't showed me any questions and changed my home directory >> in >> the way it wants? > > It created directories that it needs. This is not a conspiracy to make > you lose your data. Well, it's great that I haven't loose my data, but it polluted my home directory making me spend more time to find my data. Shouldn't _we_ command the packages what to do, not the contrary?
>> What if some package tomorrow will decide that some files in >> my home directory is unneeded and delete them because someone decided that >> not >> having these kind of files is "standard"? > > If this happens, please tell any sane Debian developer and he will slap > the person who did that with a giant cluebat. But since this didn’t > happen, I suspect that you are just bitching without a reason. I hope this would never happen, yes, but who knows. I haven't so strong evidence as it was two days ago. > If you decide whether you trust your system based on such idiotic > criteria, I think you should let others decide whether you can trust it. Idiotic? Hm, how would you find if city government will bring several chairs to your home and place them how do they want, then you came from work and spend the time to throw the chairs out because you already have all needed chairs for years and don't need to change or re-arrange them (and you also have to write the letter to the government that you don't want additional chairs, otherwise they will bring new portion of chairs tomorrow). Well, there are chairs in almost every flat, but IMHO it's not an argument to do this... Besides, when we use some desktop applications (e.g. audio player), we assume that it would never touch the files in our homes except those we are directly chosen to touch (e.g. audio files). And when some program decides to play with my files at its own, the possibility that it will broke something (unsupposedly) will increase. > I don’t know what you think Debian should be. Maybe some kind of arcane > OS “for hackers” that you only see in movies. I have never seen any movies about Debian. This is my own view. > If you see any package using debconf to ask such stupid questions, > please tell me so that I file a bug for abusing the debconf system in > two absolutely atrocious ways (maintainers scripts don’t mess with home > directories, and you don’t ask stupid questions in debconf). So, maintainer scripts cannot mess with user directories, but xdg packages can. Looks strange for me. > Anyway, there’s no such thing as a “culprit package”. Programs needing > the XDG user directories will create them as they see fit, unless you > set them to existing directories in “~/.config/user-dirs.dirs”. Sad for me, but I now see that I almost alone here. Btw, can I disable creating some of the directories in this config file, e.g. "Templates" (comments in the file tell nothing about it)? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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