[Reportbug-maint] Bug#510258: reportbug: Should follow the XDG Base Directory Specification

[Mikael Öhman]

I apologize for writing too brief description. This was my first bug report
here and I have noted to give a much more detailed rationale in feature
requests from now on.

Following the suggested standard gives several advantages, such as:
* Less cluttered home directories.
* Configurable path to config files.
* Backup/synchronization procedures become alot easier (copying multiple
configurations easily and without getting temporary data, logs and such).
* Easier to maintain permissions for configuration files with sensitive data
(only a single folder to protect).
and for many applications (which i do not believe affect this software)
* Standard path for local cache data, logs and more, which are currently
handled in various ways, often merged with config data or in some arbitrary
file/folder.

The consistency of the system would increase if additional programs adhere
to this standard as several apps already implement it.

/ Mikael


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 20:16, Mikael Öhman <micketeer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For config files, temporary files and more the specification found at
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> > should be used.
>
> Why don't invert a slice of your precious time explaining WHY should
> we follow that? what's the advantages currently missing and so on?
>
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
>
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