-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.
- Owen
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Hi
This is request for the WG members to vote on requiring all defaults
apps/components in the workstation installation be compliant with the xdg
base dir spec.
Rationale:
This is more or less the current status already with very few but high
profile components including Firefox and NSS. They could be grandfathered in
for now with a time limit for them to be compliant. If more apps were
compliant with the spec, it helps in maintenance of the system, especially
backups. It would also help convince upstreams to take this spec more
seriously if a major distribution requires it.
Prior discussions at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-October/010979.html
Thank you
Rahul
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