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(a)redhat.com> 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.
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