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0 pointsjwells891y ago0 comments

> That it's OK to use the user's filesystem (particularly directories owned by the user as opposed to the OS) as their dumping ground for all this metadata.

There are more of this type of offender than I can possibly count that dump myriad dotfiles and dotfolders in your home folder on nixes instead of adhering to platform conventions or XDG or anything, really. Worse, these programs won't function properly if you set your home folder to be read-only (leaving subdirectories writable) to keep it clean. Drives me nuts.

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ryandrake1y ago

Oh, yea. I didn't mean to give Linux/Unix a pass. Those systems can be equally cavalier about leaving their configuration droppings all over my filesystem, too.

pasc18781y ago

The issue is where does this information go.

If in a central place what happens if the original directory is moved - how is the metadata updated. - Unix is another file somewhere, Windows can be in the registry.

With Apple it is kept with the directory.

The issue is that a directory needs some metadata and the Unix design of everything is a file does not allow the directory to include this without adding another file somewhere.

The POSIX file system is not the perfect thing.

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