Why .local/share ?

[Liam R E Quin]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:16 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
[...]

> That was actually my first thought after reading this thread, but then I 
> realised that, if it's somewhat intended for ~/.local to be a place 
> where users can install apps with a prefix inside $HOME, you don't want 
> (at least) ~/.config in there. 

You don't want lib or bin in there either -- my login directory
is on a network drive and can be used from machines with differing
CPU architectures.

Liam

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