Re: storing full paths in configuration



On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 18:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> It's a bad idea to put the full path to the user's homedir in
> configuration files, because the user may use the same homedir 
> with multiple machines (different nfs mountpoints etc)
(...)
> Also rumor has it that Evolution does this.

Yeah, Evolution is completely broken in that.  It is planned to be fixed
some time after 1.4 (together with the ~/evolution directory name
issue).

-- Ettore



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