From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A question about ls(1)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:45:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97e93751-6e2f-a120-2159-0fb0246ad683@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190428165452.9BB414422F@lignose.oclsc.org>
On 4/28/2019 9:54 AM, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Bakul Shah:
>
> This could've been avoided if there was a convention about
> where to store per user per app settings & possibly state. On
> one of my Unix machines I have over 200 dotfiles.
One of the things I think Windows did right was to have one
place where all configuration information is kept. Sure,
you can argue about the implementation details, but Windows
doesn't have configuration files all over the place.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-28 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-28 16:54 Norman Wilson
2019-04-28 19:45 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2019-04-28 20:00 ` Bakul Shah
2019-04-29 18:05 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-04-29 20:37 ` Warner Losh
2019-04-29 20:44 ` Christopher Browne
2019-04-30 6:44 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-04-30 7:24 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-04-30 10:35 ` Wesley Parish
2019-04-29 22:32 ` Bakul Shah
2019-04-30 11:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-04-28 22:16 ` Thoma Paulsen
2019-04-29 0:53 ` John P. Linderman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-27 23:03 Noel Chiappa
2019-04-27 20:11 Norman Wilson
2019-04-27 14:16 Anthony Martin
2019-04-27 15:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-04-27 15:42 ` Larry McVoy
2019-04-28 23:59 ` Warner Losh
2019-04-28 11:47 ` Dan Cross
2019-04-28 12:00 ` arnold
2019-04-28 14:44 ` jcs
2019-04-28 16:15 ` Bakul Shah
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