Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle

[Hubert Chan]

On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Helge Hess <address@hidden> said:

> On May 10, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> My main concern, though, is that since the FHS doesn't define those
>> directories, users might get upset if we start creating random
>> directories in ~.

> OK, I see. Sure, we should not do this. But is anything put into
> GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT except maybe defaults? I guess not unless this is
> specifically requested by the user.

No, I don't think anything gets put there automatically, unless the user
does something like "make install GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR=...".

> I think creating a ~/.gnustep directory containing per-user
> configuration is reasonable and common practice.

Yeah, one FHS issue with ~ is that the FHS says that configuration files
are supposed to be in a dot-directory.  Currently GNUstep configuration
files are in ~/GNUstep/Defaults.  But if we make GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT to be
~/.GNUstep, then user-installed applications, libraries, etc. get
installed in a not-too-nice place, IHMO.

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