Re: Moving dot files to ~/.etc

[John <jsk29 cornell edu>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:02:51PM +0100, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
> hardcoded directory is not the best solution.
> We at PLD [ http://www.pld-linux.org ] promote HOME_ETC
> [ ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/siefca/distfiles/ ] solution.
> 
> Maybe support for HOME_ETC can be a good way ?
> 
> Short: this is a support for env. HOME_ETC pointed to directory where 
> user want to store configuration data. It may easly supported by small 
> changes in sources, or using this libhome_etc.so to return directory.
> If no HOME_ETC is set, default location should be used.

I like that.  That's a very elegant way to deal with the issue.  Has
anyone at PLD suggested that to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard group?
(http://www.google.com/search?q=fhs&x=0&y=0)

Thanks for letting me know about that!
John Karcz