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 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list