Please vote: xdg base dir spec

[Owen Taylor]

-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

----- Original Message -----
> 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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