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That is the exact problem that the standard I talk about was designed to solve (apart from the clutter in the home directory).
by boreq 8y ago
That is the exact problem that the standard I talk about was designed to solve (apart from the clutter in the home directory).
- wool_gather 8y agoI think saagarjha's point was that an even simpler standard would be for the creating application to use file metadata to annotate the files. And a simpler standard is generally more likely to be followed, especially if it's unilateral. This doesn't help with installation, obviously, but it helps with cleanup.
- masklinn 8y agoThe classic MacOS had exactly this concept: Creator Code[0], similar to the Type Code[1] but storing a file's creator rather than its "mimetype". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_code [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_code
- wool_gather 8y agoGood point, I had almost forgotten about those!
- lowry 8y agoI'd rather have minimal files in $HOME than megabytes or gigabytes in a deep hierarchy under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME In reality, I have both. In practice, I commit go the vesion control only the dotfiles I care about. And I ignore the rest.