Re: [dev] XDG directories

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:45:40PM +0200, Martin Kopta wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:48:27AM +0200, Jakub Lach wrote:
> >> > $ ls -d .* | wc -l
> >> > 37
> >> > $ ls -ld $HOME
> >> > dr-x------ 27 dum8d0g users ...
> >> >=20
> >> >=20
> >>=20
> >> $ ls -d .* | wc -l
> >> 47
> >> $ ls -ld $HOME
> >> drwxrwx--- 40 user ...
> >>=20
> >
> >How do you prevent dotfiles/dotdirs beeing created?
>
> My guess would be either rm(1) or not using crappy apps=20
> (although admittedly some of the least crappy apps clutter your=20
> home directory with them). Even with cleaning out useless=20
> dot-files every few months, I still wind up with hundreds,=20
> though.

Someone on this list already proposed to set ~ read only.
Bad apps will either fail completely, acceptable ones will output a warning or
ignore the missing permissions and good ones won't write any garbage anyway.

It also makes much sense for me, since I sometimes tend to use ~ the way other
people use /tmp.
Received on Sat Jun 12 2010 - 23:51:11 UTC