Re: GNUstep.sh / env sanity patches

[Armando Di Cianno]

On 2004-08-19 05:58:27 -0400 John Davidorff Pell <johnpell@mac.com> 
wrote:

> I find it rather stupid to be putting the defaults database outside 
> of 
> ~/Library (or ~/GNUstep/Library). I do NOT think that this 
> functionality
> should be supported because it leads to unneccessary kludge in the
> system and leads pretend power users thinking that GNUstep should
> be as flexible in everything, and by extention should honor the 
> system 
> paths, and ditch the whole concept a bundles and resources grouped 
> together etc.

I think it goes w/o saying, but once GNUstep.sh is removed, and no 
part of the make / make install / Documents make / Documents make 
install process writes defaults / creates directories, I can agree 
with this, somewhat.  I don't see _why_ it shouldn't be configurable, 
though.  For example, you _know_ that some silly program is possibly 
storing your password in clear text, so you want to relocate your 
Defaults to an encrypted file / file system.  Wait.  I'm doing that 
right now. ;-)  (I don't encrypt my entire home directory, 'cause that 
would be a lot of overhead considering music date, movies, etc etc.).

... and of course all my nightmares with the above issue in relation 
to Gentoo package management.  If proposed alterations "just fix this" 
I'm going to be really happy, but I have this nagging suspicion that a 
lot of things try to create directories/files for Defaults ... which 
is "fine", but it's an unwanted side effect when running daemons, make 
install'ng, building docs, etc etc.  Side effects are always bad, 
imho.

__armando