Re: [Suggestion] Relocate user startup files to their own subdirectory

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/3/22 7:37 AM, Akbarkhon Variskhanov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:02 AM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
> > Why is "to reduce the number of files in $HOME" always presented
> > as a self-evident justification for this?
>
> That's precisely it.

That's not exactly a strong argument.

"Create fewer files in $HOME."
"To what end?"
"To create fewer files in $HOME."
"Why?"
"So there are fewer files in $HOME."

The benefit of having fewer files in $HOME -- even dot files -- is assumed
to be axiomatic.

 FHS talks about "user consent":
> > It is recommended that, apart from autosave and lock files, programs should 
> > refrain
> > from creating non dot files or directories in a home directory without user 
> > consent.

We're not talking about "non dot" files here.

If you want to put one or both of your bash startup files in `~/.bash' and
symlink them to where bash will look for them, or set HISTFILE to a
filename in that directory, you can do that today.

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