On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:42:37PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -1 - I think Matthias covers the basic reasoning well at: > > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-October/011032.html > > > > Beyond that: the vast majority of applications available for Fedora will > > not be installed by default - it's not much of a carrot to tell an upstream > > application author that they need to conform the basedir standard to be > > included by default, when they *won't* be installed by default. > > > > If we want Firefox to conform to the basedir spec we need to try to achieve > > that by communication and possibly providing help with it - not by policy. > > I agree with this entirely. I agree too, I'm -1 on the requirement, but I think *recommending* the use of XDG basedir, and collaborating with upstream, is completely appropriate. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
