[systemd-devel] file-hierarchy. user persistent data dir.

[Michael Biebl]

2014-07-04 14:21 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>:
> On 04/07/14 11:33, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> ~/.config: state and configuration, the counterpart for both /etc/ *and*
>>            /var/lib/ in the home directory
>>
>> ~/.local: static vendor resources of additional packages installed into
>>           the home directory. Should be considered read-only except when
>>           new packages are installed or removed from the home
>>           directory. The counterpart of /usr/ in the home directory.
>
> This is not, in practice, what happens: I certainly have a lot of state
> (/var/lib-like) in my ~/.local/share.

Indeed. When looking through my ~/.local/share there are a lot of state files.

Actually, the majority of applications that I use treat ~/.local as
app state directory, only a very seem to use ~/.config for that.

This clearly needs clarification in the XDG spec.



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