[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse audio and NFS home directories.

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On 13 May 2009, Jason Taylor spake thusly:

> shouldn't the directory be ~/.config/pulseaudio now ?
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

That's very non-Unixlike. Unix tradition has always been that if you
need multiple per-user configuration files, you put them in a
dot-directory in the user's $HOME named after the creating application.
Technically clued users know this.

Personally, if something went wrong with PA I would never think of
looking in ~/.config/, because the directory is plainly superfluous:
dotfiles in $HOME *are* configuration, so there's no need for an extra
layer of directories. As there's no way everything will ever switch to
using ~/.config, all this does is adds an inconsistent place to keep
config files: and Unix has been fairly free of such inconsistencies
until now.

*slouches off, grumbling about people who don't know Unix being condemned
 to reinvent it*