From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: ways out of the jungle ;-) Date: 7 May 1993 01:30:40 GMT
If you ever used an apollo computer, you'll find they leave all other
unix machines behind in terms of user friendlyness. So naturally they
already thought of this idea. I've been using this since day one. Just
for convience though, I suggest we follow there example which means
instead of /etc/config we should use:
/user_data : for system configuration
~/user_data : for user configuration
Also, often dot files get overlooked so we should try links like:
ln /.login /user_data/login
For a while I was recompiling the commands under Linux to user user_data
as a default (like on the apollo's) but after a while I decided this was
to much of a pain...
Incidently, on a HP try:
ln -s ~/.vue_profile ~/user_data
It seems HP almost got this part right (but little else), however they failed
to put everything in this directory, and were abit stupid in choosing a name.
Other things that make good links:
everything in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit
.seyon
.screen
.newsrc
.elm
.netrc
.mailrc
.kermrc
.logout
.
.
.
Bill
Bill