[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS public_html/src/Writing/DWN

[CVS User joey]

Update of /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN
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	dwn-2007-02.wml 
Log Message:
Contribution by Felipe: handling dotfiles

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 <p>Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the
 Debian community.</p>
 
+# From: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at cathedrallabs.org>
+
+<p><strong>Proposing a new way to handle dotfiles in home directories.</strong>
+Aigars Mahinovs <a
+href="http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/">\
+proposed</a> in his blog a policy to specify how aplications can store data and
+configuration information in users home folder, the idea is implementing the
+specification first in Debian and then promoting it for inclusion upstream and
+in other distributions as a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) extension.
+Mark Hymers <a
+href="http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/#comment-20060">\
+commented</a> the post poiting to <a
+href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html">\
+XDG Base Directory Specification FreeDesktop</a>, that already tries to
+address the config part of the problem.  On a related discussion at
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop">debian-desktop</a>, Christian
+Gatzemeier add some links for discussions held on FreeDesktop maillists about
+related issues.</p>
+
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