On 9/20/21 12:03, Peter White wrote: > The way I see it there will be two universes: FHS and a subtly different > XDG Base Dir Spec, which breaks with the former in peculiar subtle ways > and any dev used to the former is in for some surprises, when not > reading carefully. Now, I get that by saying "information" instead of > "files" the authors did not want to limit themselves or the spec to > files, which makes sense, given the elaborations about reading config > files, let aside that it has been done since long before XDG anyways by > shells for example. I think some people would do good by reading and > understanding what was there already before "fixing" things that were > not broken in the first place. This "information" vs. "files" stuff > seems like one of these occasions. > > [...] > > There is no need for a new spec to make this happen since this is > documented in shell manuals which were there from the beginning of time, > UNIX time that is. > > And, need I remind anyone: "Those who do not understand UNIX are > condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer > A lot of thought went into it, so one should not go fixing stuff that > was never broken.
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html Did you say something about the sacred Unix? Who is reinventing what now? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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