[haiku-development] Re: Read-Only Problems

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:58:52 +0100 CET

> Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 06.03.2008 um 17:45 schrieb Truls Becken:
> > > With future multiuser support in mind, no program should ever
> > > write
> > > settings to any other place than ~/config/settings. I believe
> > > this
> > > has
> > > always been the Be philosophy anyway, so this should already be
> > > the
> > > case, right?
> > No. Many command line tools write to ~/.* or similar (svn, ssh,
> > ...).
>
> And those should actually be updated to use the system provided
> configuration directory IMO.
> I know that I had a ssh version that did that, and my svn version
> also
> does that, though.
>

some apps have ./configure options to specify this, but not many.

Btw, you didn't need to change BFS, just use qemu with boot floppy and
image as cdrom :)

François.

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