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
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