On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:36:27PM -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
As defined in: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
This offers a number of advantages: * Allows sharing a home directory between different machines, or sessions (eg. using NFS) * Cleanly separates cache, runtime (eg. sockets), or app data from user settings * Supports performing smart or selective migration of settings between different OS versions * Supports reseting settings without breaking things * Makes it possible to clear cache data to make room when the disk is filling up * Allows us to write a robust and efficient backup solution * Allows an admin flexibility to change where data and settings are stored * Dramatically reduces the complexity and incoherence of the system for administrators
FYI, I have applied this now that 0.9.12 is released. Everyone beware that what was in their $HOME/.libvirt directory will now be found in $HOME/.config/libvirt Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|