Why .local/share ?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Liam R E Quin wrote:
> 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.

Then where do you install things like per-user app plugins?  And when 
you want to install an app locally in your home directory where do you 
install it?

	-brian

P.S.  Please, no need to CC me, I'm obviously on the list.