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[oliver]

Waldo Bastian wrote:

>On Tuesday 26 October 2004 13:11, C. Gatzemeier wrote:
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>>XDG_DATA_HOME defaulting to $HOME/.local/share raises another question.
>>What association does it have with local? It's user specific thus under
>>$HOME, the home dir seems to be often imported over the network rather than
>>local.
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>It's the user's equivalent of /usr/local
>Note that /usr is often imported over the network rather than local.
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>Cheers,
>Waldo
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would we really want to split a users homedir into several section like
an entire system? Could someone please explain to me why that would be
required? I don't work with big networks like that, rather a server with
a workstation and a laptop.